On Jan 28, 11:01 am, jpf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, January 28, 2011 2:59:19 PM UTC+5:30, Karsten Silz wrote: > > > On off-topic question: Why is the Android emulator so slow? > > The startup of the emulator is slow. The good thing is that you only need > to start the emulator once. If the emulator is already running and you run > your app again, the emulator reinstalls the app relatively quickly
I meant how come that the app runs in the emulator so slow. At least that's what I heard - Android devs, please correct me if I'm wrong. For instance, the narrator in the "Engadget Honeycomb emulator video" complained that the actual execution (like clicking on a widget and dragging it to the trashcan) was very slow and that Google was aware of it. Check it out: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/26/android-3-0-honeycomb-preview-emulator-hands-on/ Now I thing Honeycomb uses more animations and hardware acceleration - does that mean the emulator will be even slower? On iOS, the emulator is probably "real iOS", but recompiled to x86. When you run an app on the emulator, it runs native x86 code there - when you deploy to a device, it runs ARM code. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
