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Configure hardware acceleration for the Android Emulator

Hardware acceleration:

  • Graphics acceleration: Improve screen rendering, especially in games
  • VM acceleration(a.k.a, CPU acceleration): Improve execution speed

Graphics acceleration can be enabled with -gpu option. Windows: It may need you add the emulator.exe to the Graphics settings, such as "C:\Users\xx\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\emulator.exe"

VM acceleration is enabled in default. For instance, if WHPX is configured in windows, it will be used automatically.

emulator.exe -avd Pixel_3a_API_34_extension_level_7_x86_64 -gpu host -no-snapshot

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