My GPU chip / driver don't seem to support OpenGL 2.0 (1.1 only?), showing in the startup messages.Įmulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer. Performance on the Phone AVD is acceptable although slightly laggy, using Intel HAXM 1.0.6 and 'Use Host GPU' option. While I find Windows more familiar and easier to use, because of the poor Android emulator experience on Windows I find using Ubuntu a less annoying experience for this particular task. I find Windows 8 on this machine faster than Windows 7 and generally a pleasant experience while probably on par with Ubuntu 13.04 in terms of performance. I chose to test with Android 4.2.2 AVD images just to push it - older versions like Android 2.1 or 2.3 seem to work better.Īlso I'm running the tests on my home Dell laptop which is a few years old, making the difference even more obvious. I'm not quite sure what makes the difference so large, might be the OS or maybe the QEMU software implementation on each OS. I haven't seen much difference in terms of Eclipse performance, but when it comes down to the Emulator it is quite obvious. I mentioned earlier I've been trying Ubuntu for Android development, and today I'll try to capture the difference in performance of the Android emulator on the two platforms.

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