Start the Android Virtual Device Manager (select Start > All Programs > Embarcadero RAD Studio XE6 > Android SDKs > Android AVD Manager).
In this case, you do not need to install another Android system image. Note: If you installed the Android SDK and NDK during RAD Studio installation, a valid Android system image (such as Android 4.2.2 API 17) should already be shown as Installed in the Android SDK Manager. Installing an Android System Image (Required)īefore you create an Android emulator, you need to install an Android system image that your emulators can use. Note: It is a well-known performance issue that Android emulators are extremely slow. Although an emulator might run on a VM, the emulator will not actually run an application.
We do not support emulators for the 2.x version (Gingerbread) because emulators for Android versions 2.x target an ARMv6 CPU, which Delphi does not support.Īndroid emulators are heavily hardware-dependent, and this includes the hardware being emulated as well as the hardware on which the emulator runs.įor this reason, we recommend that you verify the presence of a suitable graphics card on your development system. RAD Studio supports the emulator for Android versions 4.x.
However, if you are running Delphi on a VM on a Mac OS X computer, you can consider using a remote emulator on the Mac, given that the emulator does not work on VMs. We do not recommend using an Android emulator on a virtual machine (VM), because GPU support for the emulator is generally not available on VMs.