Once you have downloaded you have to right-click to the. The only thing that you have to do is to download the last available emulator for Apple silicon processors from Github The easiest way to proceed is to use a physical device, but what if you haven’t one available at the moment you are developing?įrom now on, we will go with the option of using an Android virtual device based on an ARM system image as options 2 and 3 are not possible to execute. If you want to learn more regarding virtualization in processors you can read the following Wikipedia article, the thing is that our M1 processor doesn’t support VT-x, however, we have options to run an Android Virtual Device.Īs the previous message was telling us, we have 4 options. (This is 10x slower than hardware-accelerated virtualization)Īndroid virtual device Pixel_3a_API_30_x86 was successfully createdĪnd also in the Android virtual device (AVD) screen you will read the following warning: Unfortunately, your computer does not support hardware-accelerated virtualization.Ģ - Develop on a Windows/OSX computer with an Intel processor that supports VT-x and NXģ - Develop on a Linux computer that supports VT-x or SVMĤ - Use an Android Virtual Device based on an ARM system image When you install Android Studio you will get the following warning: Using Android studio in the new Macbook Air As I said in the previous post, these configurations are workarounds until stable versions are released, however, for me, they have been useful and I guess that someone in the same situation as me can benefit from that. This is the second post that I dedicate to talk about configurations using the new M1 Apple processor.

The android emulator for mac