Android emulator is very very slow
android, android-emulator
Solution
It shouldn't take more than 5-10min at most to build the emulator on initial startup. The SD card size has no effect on memory usage, it's not loaded into memory, it just creates a larger image file for the sdcard. Setting the emulator to have 256mb of ram will help, but in general when I have the same problem I just close down the emulator window and re-start it. Sometimes it just gets hung-up on creation and isn't a memory issue (I have 16gb of ram and still have the problem from time to time)
Problem
My laptop: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GHz, 1GB RAM. I created a target with SD Card 512MB, Device RAM size 512, snapshot enabled. I waited for 30 minutes but the emulator doesn't ends up loading. It keeps showing a flash word "Android" on the black screen. Before running the emulator, I closed most other programs. What's wrong with it? This is very frustrating. :(