M1 Macbook Android Emulator

Click on releases option and download the latest preview version by clicking of android emulator m1 preview.dmg. It will download a DMG file. Click on the DMG file in downloads folder of your Mac. Apr 14, 2021 My first impression of setting up Android App Development on an M1 MacBook Pro is not as positive as I hope to get it, as my blog below. It is working, but it is not ideal in various way. May 14, 2021 I have an M1 MacBook Air and have been waiting for Android Studio to support M1 macs so that I can use it for developing my React Native project. It’s been about a half year since an Android Emulator developer tweeted that he managed to run it.

Setting up the environment

How to create Android emulators in M1 Mac. Using Android Studio Emulators in M1 Mac: Previously, when M1 Macbooks were released, Android studio didn’t have any support for emulators. Google has released a different preview build for emulators. You can check this build here. Jan 09, 2021 After pressing the launch button you will get your Android application running in your ARM virtual emulator:-) Conclusion. In this post, we have seen that is possible to install Android Studio in Macbook Air M1 and use a virtual device even that your M1 doesn’t support VT-x. You can learn more about this emulator in the following references.

Setup for iOS needs:

Node (with NVM)
Watchman brew install watchman
Xcode (install from the App Store)
Xcode Command Line Tools xcode-select --install
Accept the Software License for Xcode sudo xcodebuild -license. It'll prompt you anyway when you run Xcode for the first time.
CocoaPods sudo gem install cocoapods

Homebrew

Install Homebrew if you don't have it installed already

Node LTS with NVM

iOS

Open Terminal / iTerm with Rosetta (Get Info > Open using Rosetta)
Prefix the CocoaPods related commands with arch -x86_64

Android

Install JDK 8 brew install --cask adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8
Install Android Studio
Install Android Emulator for M1

Android Emulator Online

The Android Emulator doesn't work out of the box yet. Luckily, there is a Preview build by Google that supports Apple Silicon M1 chip based MacBooks. You'll have to download and install it separately. Most things work.

Troubleshooting

Android Emulator Macbook M1

command not found for brew or nvm. Make sure you have a ~/.zshrc file. On a fresh new M1 MacBook, there is no ~/.zshrc or ~/.zprofile created and the $PATH doesn't get updated because of it. Create a ~/.zshrc file and run the commands to install Homebrew and NVM again.

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