Configuring an Android emulator and hardware acceleration

If we want a fast Android emulator that works smoothly, we need to enable hardware acceleration. This can be done using either Intel HAXM or Hyper-V. The disadvantage of Intel HAXM is that it can't be used on machines with an Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processor; you have to have a machine with an Intel processor. We can't use Intel HAXM in parallel with Hyper-V.

For these reasons, Hyper-V is the preferred way to hardware accelerate the Android emulator on a Windows machine. To use Hyper-V with the Android emulator, we need to have the April 2018 update (or later) for Windows and Visual Studio version 15.8 (or later) installed. To enable Hyper-V, you need to go through the following ...

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