Android Emulator stuck loading screen on M1 mac/ Apple Silicon
I had downloaded Android Studio on my M1 MacBook air but I can't run the emulator and it just gives me an error. I search Android Studio requirements for mac and it says that it requires mac os 10.10 or higher and a minimum of 2 GB disk space and 4GB of ram. Anyone have this issue and how do I solve it?
I try download the arm image android studio it is stuck on the loading screen for the emulator.
As for now (19/11/2020) any of the Virtualization tools do not work with the new Apple M1 macs. So things like docker, emulators etc. We might have to wait a bit until this is fully supported unfortunately.
Good news !
Edit on 28th July 2021 🎉 🌈
Apple Silicon Support
There is an arm64 release version available for Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) You can download it here https://developer.android.com/studio/archive
When NDK runs into Unknown host CPU architecture: arm64 you can solve it here
End of beta ! Thank you
Edit on March 2021
I can confirm, this preview of Emulator works properly https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2020/12/android-emulator-apple-silicon-preview.html
In the blog there is a link to a private repo (2021-Jan-04). They moved repo to google and there you find V3 https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview/releases
Since v3 even audio-out works (no audio-in)
Edit on 4th Feb 2021
Now audio in and out works properly https://github.com/741g/android-emulator-m1-preview/issues/10#issuecomment-773532762
Edit March 2021
You can simply use one of them and it's working out of the box
Ok it has some limitations, but it works
On August release notes you can see on the emulator for Arm host section an entry where they said the support for M1 is in progress. Check the link below: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/emulator#emulator_for_arm64_hosts
As of today the android emulator is up and working on the Apple Silicon here's a working demo from a googler
source: https://twitter.com/GoogleLfy/status/1332474914398322689 And the known issues here: https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2020/12/android-emulator-apple-silicon-preview.html
we can expect the stable release by the end of 2020 here's a conversation about the same https://www.reddit.com/user/lfy_google/