Visual studio emulator for android is not compatible with amd ryzen processors windows 10 0 visual studio 2017 version 15 1 android rahul ravindran reported apr 25 2017 at 03 41 pm. To use the new emulator on amd processors you ll need android studio 3 2 beta or higher along with v27 3 8 of the emulator. Android emulator running on an amd ryzen 7 1700 processor.
This is meant for amd users on windows who want a faster avd experience on par with haxm or cannot run with hyper v whpx enabled e g running other virtual machine engines such as vmware virtualbox or not running. Android emulator hypervisor driver for amd processors is now available for download via sdk manager in the canary channel. However while working on my ryzen cpu powered desktop i had difficulties getting the program working on my machine.
That all changed in 2018 when google added hyper v support to the android emulator. In the past android studio did not support amd s cpus for hardware emulation of an android device. The links described in the video.
And the canary build of the emulator. Using the current build of 3 1 3. In this video i demonstrate and talk about using a ryzen processor with the android studio.
Download the latest android emulator from the android studio 3 2 beta sdk manager for the latest performance updates across all supported platforms that you are using. Next steps feedback. For those using amd processors and those who use hyper v hypervisors this should be an exciting step forward to start using the android emulator.
