Thursday, 20 March 2014

X86 Emulator Image Released by Google & Intel Along with Google APIs

Currently, Intel’s growth in the world of Android realm has not accurately been devastating. There are numerous high-end and mid-range smart-phones that are equipped with an ATOM CPU in the single digits, making the x86 architecture a quite low priority for app developers.

When it comes to Intel’s emulator images, they have always required support for the Google APIs, allowing developers without the ability to test common staples like Google Maps as well as push messages. However, the issue has been repaired with KitKat as Google and Intel both finally have shipped an x86 system image with Google API support.



So, when it comes to test android applications with Google-specific features, an ATOM emulator most likely doesn’t sense awful, but there is one main upshot – as developers are allowed to finally use HAXM without making any kind of sacrifices.

Many of you all don’t have information about Intel’s Hardware Accelerated execution Manager (HAXM), it is a tiny piece of software that allows emulator to utilize the built-in virtualization and hardware acceleration features of most modern Intel processors. We can also say that the agonizingly slow Android emulator can be made moderately early.

We all know that HAXM has been around from very long time, but the lack of a system image with Google API support made it nearly unusable given the dependence many applications. But now it is easily possible to boost the speed of development and automated testing significantly.

In a post on its Developer Zone blog, Intel said "That means you can now test your apps that use Google APIs on an x86 virtual device image, and take advantage of the huge hardware acceleration speed boost you get from our HAXM driver if your development system has Intel VT virtualization technology”.


If you are looking to get x86 system image with Google APIs, you just need to open up the Android SDK manager window in Eclipse and go to the “Android 4.4.2/API 19” section and remember to install both the “Intel x86 Atom System Image” and the Google APIs”. If once you installed a new system image, Intel said that you need to develop a new Android Virtual Device (AVD) for the emulator to use.

Source :-  x86 emulator

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