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Performance of the Android Virtual Device

The Android virtual device (a simulated Android environment) doesn't run very smoothly on my machine. Scrolling and animations in general are quite sluggish. Is that normal?

EDIT: Just noticed that a AVD running Android 1.6 has a significantly better performance than the AVDs running on 2.1 and 2.2.

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Its normal unless you have like 4GB of RAM, an SSD, and a good processor. Out of all those, RAM is probably the most important though since your basically running a VM(Virtual Machine) on a VM.

hwrdprkns  2010-06-15 20:09:13
I can expect my apps to have a better performance on an actual phone, right?
Emanuil  2010-06-15 20:10:19
Yeah, it'll run a good deal better. Especially on the current gen devices (Nexus One, HTC Evo, etc.)
CaseyB  2010-06-15 20:16:31
Oh yes, much much faster. For example, I put a list of 2239 categories in a Dictionary -- it took 40 seconds to load on my emulator and only 3 seconds to do it on my Moto Droid.
hwrdprkns  2010-06-15 21:14:57
Try to use the emulator as a measurement on how your app would run on the crappiest device available on the market. If your app runs acceptable on the emulator it will run great on the most devices.
Janusz  2010-06-16 09:04:12

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