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Anakata17283y@netikras not IDE, just Emulator. I needed it because the official Android Studio Emulator kept freezing/crashing my laptop
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@Anakata So it's AVD that sucks, not AndroidStudio then?
Or is it Google's official android emulator that sucks?
Is Genymotion a reimplementation of google's android emulator, or just a VirtualBox-based wrapper for it, providing a different UX?
Trying to get my head around -
Anakata17283y@netikras lol I don’t know that much, but I’ve heard that even the Android Studio IDE is pretty heavy as it causes the PC/laptop to freeze often so I thought that must the the root cause
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Anakata17283y@C0D4 yes you do as you have to set the Android SDKs path to connect your react native app to the emulator (assuming that’s what you’re trying to do)
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As far as I remember, the android emulator uses qemu to emulate Arm, or x86 hyperv, while genymotion uses x86 virtualbox, and is limited to x86.
Depending on your setup - you can optimize the emulator setup to use the haxm runtime.
It will never be as good a an actual device, and you can buy a used/refurb one for 50$ or so....
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