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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Creating the Screen Layout Android Tools Overview

Prasoon Shukla
Prasoon Shukla
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Posted by Prasoon Shukla
Prasoon Shukla
3,426 Points

Both Emulator and Genymotion on my laptop are very slow. Can this be because of my machine config?

My machine's configuration is: Memory 1.8 GB, Intel Pentium(R) CPU 2020M @2.4GHZ*2, OS type 64 bit, DIsk 484 GB (of which over 350 is free). How can I improve performance of Genymotion (It took more than 1 hour to run and every other application got stuck)

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Ken Alger
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Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Prasoon;

Welcome to Treehouse!

Derek Etnyre is right on the money. 1.8 GB of RAM is very low for Android emulation. I bumped mine from 4 to 8GB and wish I could go higher.

Happy coding,
Ken

Derek Etnyre
Derek Etnyre
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Derek Etnyre
Derek Etnyre
20,822 Points

Suspect you need more memory. Go to Task Manager And Check CPU and Memory Usage.