

Launching the emulator won't be an excuse to go for a cup of coffee anymore. This is obviously dependent on underlying system performance and specs, but any computer will see significantly faster startup times. This is roughly comparable to waking a device from sleep mode.Īccording to Google, the re-engineered snapshot support allows the emulator to start up in under 6 seconds. Instead of performing a cold boot, a snapshot can be reopened to the state it was in prior to the last time it was closed. Quick Boot works more like the snapshot features of some mainstream virtual machine platforms. Today, this version of the emulator reaches the stable channel and the Android Tools team posted about many of the other valuable improvements this update brings. It came with quite a few enhancements, but the the headliner was Quick Boot, which can reportedly achieve startup times of less than 6 seconds.

At the same time, a major upgrade to the Android Emulator also went out to developers on Android Studio's canary channel. Back in October, Android Studio 3.0 was set loose to the stable channel with improved support for the Kotlin language, platform technologies like Android Things, and many other new and improved features.
