

- #ANDROID EMULATOR INTEL HAXM MAC HOW TO#
- #ANDROID EMULATOR INTEL HAXM MAC MAC OS X#
- #ANDROID EMULATOR INTEL HAXM MAC INSTALL#
#ANDROID EMULATOR INTEL HAXM MAC MAC OS X#
So, I tried to make the emulator on freshly installed Mac OS X 10.0 Yosemite run faster.
#ANDROID EMULATOR INTEL HAXM MAC HOW TO#
This brought me to Stackoverflow, where they discussed how to enhance the speed of Android emulator by installing HAXM. But no – the emulator was still very slow. When I started the emulator on Mac, I hoped it would run much faster (with SSD and Intel Core i7 on board). Instead, I always used a physical android device to test my apps. Unfortunately, my old laptop didn’t support Intel virtualisation technology, so I didn’t even consider working with emulator. There is a pretty detailed Stackoverflow answer regarding HAXM and Android emulator performance. This will make the emulator start faster, but the UI will still be slow, and it will take a bit longer for the emulator to close.
#ANDROID EMULATOR INTEL HAXM MAC INSTALL#
If your machine supports Intel VT-x technology, you can install special HAXM extension, so that the emulator will make use of all the power your computer has.

To make it faster there are two approaches: It takes 5 minutes to start the emulator! In order to re-enable the kext security protection, you need to restart your Mac in Recovery OS, open a Terminal window and run csrutil enable.By default Android emulator is extremely slow. To be sure it works, you can also run sudo kextload -bundle-id. silent_install.sh and that should be it. Save the file and open a Terminal at this location. You need to add the 10.13 version after 10.12 (separated by space, just like the rest). You will find it on the line which should look like this for v in 10.8 10.9 10.10 10.11 10.12 Unzip if needed, edit the silent_install.sh file and search for the 10.12 OS version. Then restart your Mac and log in, go here to download the latest Intel HAXM driver. Next, you need to go to Utilities > Terminal and run: csrutil enable -without kext This command will only work on Recovery OS, which means that you need to restart your Mac and hold command + R until the Apple logo is displayed. Essentially you need to disable the security protection on kext before trying to install the HAXM drivers.

There might be other (better) solutions to this, but I have successfully managed to start the emulator this way. I was able to install Intel HAXM drivers on my Mac using the instructions provided in this post.
