How to make Android emulator boot faster
android, java
Solution
How can I make the emulator use two cores instead of just one?
You can't, sorry.
What are the emulator setting that will make boot faster?
You should try to use one of the x86 emulator images (available now for 4.0.3 and 2.3.3). Beyond that, I am aware of nothing that will speed up the boot time.
Note that you can leave your emulator running for extended periods of time -- you don't need to close and reopen it to run a new copy of your app, for example.
Problem
I'm currently stuck with using Atom CPU desktop for my Android app development. What are the ways to improve its boot time. When running the emulator I can see that the number of cores used by the emulator is just one, I'm running the emulator from within the Eclipse ADT plugin. - How can I make the emulator use two cores instead of just one? - What are the emulator setting that will make boot faster? My android project will be mainly a PhoneGap + jQuery android app.