Android emulator laggy on Mac

Question

First of all, yes I know there\'s a lot of topics similar to this issue, I did use the search function on stack overflow.

But most of the issue that were brought up

Answer 1

Try genomotion emulator! Its very fast, and way lighter than the other simulators*!

1. Go here https://cloud.genymotion.com/page/customer/edit/, and register
2. Download the IntelliJ Idea/Android studio plugin, and the Application (works for Linux/Mac/Windows)
3. Install the application. Install the plugin (Preferences/Plugins/Install from disc)
4. Open application. Login with registration credentials. Download from genymotion's cloud an image (eg nexus7 w/o gapps)
5. Select in IntelliJ/Android Studio the genymotion icon, and the select the path of the Application
   1. Run your app in genymotion emulator! Note: it will appear as "USB Device" and NOT as emulator!

*I have tried nexus7 w/ intels HAXM. Its super fast too, but its very heavy! Genymotion is much lighter!

Edit2: some weird error I faced using this emulator. When running the emulator, I could add text input to EditText if physical keyboard language was not english!