Macos M1 Android Emulator
The latest Canary build of Android Studio (15 as of writing this) brings initial native support for M1 Macs. There are still a lot of things missing, but the basics work. You can build and run JVM. Android emulators for macOS make it possible to run Android apps on a Mac. With this, one can enjoy over 2.8 million apps from the Play Store and elsewhere. There are several Android emulators for Mac, but BlueStacks is one of the best and easiest general users. It is actively maintained, and the community of users is vast. You might be seen an emulator error running on Apple Silicon (Macbook Pro/Air M1) 'Your CPU does not support VT-x' in Android Studio.There is an arm64 versio.
Using Android Studio Emulators in M1 Mac:
Previously, when M1 Macbooks were released, Android studio didn’t have any support for emulators. Google has released a different preview build for emulators. You can check this build here.
The problem with this preview build is that you can’t change the emulator device type. It works, but if you want to test your application on different device or different screen sizes, there was no other option available.
Recently, they released one change to the Android Studio SDK manager and downloading an extra emulator is no loger needed now.
In this post, I will quickly show you how to create Android Emulators on M1 chipset mac in Android Studio.
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How to do that:
First, make sure that you have the latest Android Studio installed. If you have 4.1.2 or later Android studio version, this will work.
First, start AVD manager. If you haven’t created any AVD or android virtual device before, you will find it in Tools->AVD Manager.
Click on Create new virtual device button. It will show you a list of different devices. You can select any of these phones.
- Click on next. It will show you a list of system images. Basically, it shows different images for different Android Versions that can be used with the current AVD. Make sure to select the ‘Other image’ tab. Images listed under this tab are designed for Macbook M1.
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That’s all. It will create one emulator using that selected image. You can also create different virtual devices using the same image.