On I / O Extended 16 a new version of Android Studio was presented, in which the standard emulator was updated. According to the developers, the new emulator has become 16 times faster to collect projects, requires several times fewer resources, etc.

Has anyone already understood and compared the NEW standard emulator and Genymotion? Which is better, which is faster, why?

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    The new emulator has appeared since version 2.0 and it has nothing to do with assembly time. Adjust and clarify your question. - temq

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The new emulator has been available for a long time, even with Android Studio 2.0.
Yes, it is much faster than the old one. On good hardware faster than some average phones.
In Android Studio 2.2, presented at I / O 2016, the speed of building projects and downloading an APK on a device / emulator is accelerated.
The new emulator has many useful features, dynamic size, screenshots with one click, drag-n-drop, etc.
Just try it, it all already has with the latest stable Android Studio 2.1.1.

  • Question about comparison with Genymotion. - D-side
  • @ D-side the question is not clear at all, because The emulator has nothing to do with the project build. - temq
  • @temq This is better to notice in the comments to the question . - D-side

Genymotion is definitely better and faster. In the new emulator in the studio carefully saved all the old bugs. Here at the end of the article you can read.

    I understand that this is not the answer to the question, but I would like to draw attention to the innovations in Android Studio 2.2, since we are talking about the latest Google I / O and this IDE

    The following innovations presented on Google I / O Android Studio 2.2:

    1. New visual editor with significant improvements for the new container ConstraintLayout (described a bit here )
    2. Visual editor for Menu and Preferences markup files
    3. Layout Inspector for the markup loading test right in Android Studio
    4. Improved Lint and Inspections
    5. Redesigned sample browser, now you can embed samples directly into your code.
    6. Improved C ++ support
    7. Firebase Plugin
    8. Java 8 Compiler Jack Compiler
    9. IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1 in the database, with all its main features .

    10. APK Analyzer to solve problems with the compiled application: size, problem 64K and etc.

      A new emulator is presented in version AS2.0

    • I also "understand that this is not the answer to the question," so why post it here? Create yourself a new question like "What are the innovations in Android Studio 2.2?" and put your answer there ;-) - Kromster
    • @KromStern the question is: what is with the emulator on the AS Google I / O 16 presentation, and the answer is that there is nothing with the emulator, but there are changes with other functions, therefore it will be useful here. - pavlofff