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Android Studio Canary adds initial support for Apple’s new M1 Macs

Besides the web, Android is probably one of the most accessible development platforms. Physical Android devices can be incredibly cheap, and there’s no shortage of emulator options for testing. And of course, the actual IDE, Android Studio, works on almost every desktop platform in existence, including macOS.

However, Android Studio has been missing something: ARM support. While ARM-based processors have mostly been used in mobile devices, we’re starting to see them used in laptops and even desktops. Even Apple recently got in on the action with its ARM-based M1 chipset powering the latest Macbook Air, Macbook Pro 13, and 24-inch iMac.

Because this is a recent transition, Apple has built-in a compatibility layer to allow x86-based programs to run on M1 Macs, and it seems to work pretty well. But nothing beats native. Thankfully, Google is working on a solution.

The latest Canary build of Android Studio (15 as of writing this) brings initial native support for M1 Macs. There are still a lot of things missing, but the basics work.

• You can build and run JVM-only apps (the C++ compiler isn’t finished).
• You can use the design tools, like the layout preview.
• You can use the built-in emulator with Android 11 and Android 12.

Of course, there are also a lot of things that don’t work yet.

• You can’t do any native C-based development, since the NDK and build tools don’t yet run on ARM.
• Once you update to Canary 15, you won’t be able to do an incremental update to the next version.
• A lot of debugging tools don’t work out-of-the-box. This includes the database inspector, layout inspector, and others. There’s a workaround for this over on JetBrains’ issue tracker.
• There are some UI issues with the emulator.

Neither of these lists is fully exhaustive, so be sure to check out Google’s blog post for more details.

Seeing builds of Android Studio for ARM is encouraging. While this is only for macOS right now, it hopefully opens the door for ARM builds for Windows or even Linux in the future, which could lead to developing for Android directly from Android.

While we wait for that utopic future, though, if you have an M1 Mac and you want to try this build out, head over to Google’s blog post for more details on what’s new and what you might need to get it up and running.

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Android Studio/Emulator on macOS with ARM CPU M1

I started Android Studio 4.1 in macOS Big Sure 11.0.1 with new ARM cpu M1

After installing Rosetta: Yes, it builds !

But the Emulator has problems, it shows me CPU does not support VT-x

Even ARM images have this issue

I used the most recent, a very old api25 (Google has to do here something) but it’s increadible slow

How to make the Emulator work and fast ?

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Edit on 28th July 2021 🎉 🌈

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

Use a arm64-v8a image !

• Tools -> SDK Manager
• Install Android 11 (R) or 12.0 (S) and click Apply
• Tools -> AVD Manager -> click Create Virtual Device
• Choose any device that has the Play button and click Next
• Choose an arm64-v8a on «Other Images» tab

When NDK runs into Unknown host CPU architecture: arm64 you can solve it here

End of beta ! Thank you

Edit on May 2021 🎉 🌈

There is an arm64 version available for Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) Canary 15 . RC01 You can download it here https://developer.android.com/studio/archive

Edit on 4th Feb 2021

• Go to AVD Manager
• Click «+ Create Virtual Device»
• Choose a Device definition (ex. «Pixel 4a XL»)
• Click «Next»
• Click «Other images»
• Download «S» System image
• Click «Next»
• Click «Finish»

Steps to run your Android APP on M1

Finally my Android APP running normally on my M1 chip !

This presume you already have your environment variables set.

Download Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) Link (I personally got the last I could September 1, 2021)

Install and open Android Studio

Tools -> SDK Manager

Check the box of Android 12.0 (S) and click Apply

. Wait until it’s downloaded

Tools -> AVD Manager -> click Create Virtual Device

Choose any device that has the Play button and click Next

Choose the image S. If you can’t find it in the Recommended tab click on Other Images

Final step click Next and Finish

You should now be ready to go.

You can now download the Android Studio Canary. In which you can run the android emulator with out any limitation of the android emulator m1 preview. In android emulator m1 preview there are issues with webview , device skin, sound etc..now you dont have to worry about that

Here is the link

This fixed my issue

Tools -> SDK Manager -> SDK Tools (tab) -> Deselect ‘Android Emulator’ -> OK

Now, when you try to run your app, or launch device from AVD Manager, it will give the ‘Install Emulator’ error -> Click Ok. This will automatically download the correct version.

Now It’s available

Apple Silicon Support

Android Studio Arctic Fox Canary 15 contains preliminary support for Apple Silicon (arm64). This version of Android Studio for this platform is still under active development, but we wanted to get a functional version out to the app developer community to get feedback. On top of the Intellij build, design tools work, and the Android Emulator works with API 30 and API S Developer Preview emulator system images.

For me I can run the emulator on my MacBook Pro MacOS Big Sur with ARM CPU M1 only on Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1 Beta03 and later versions) only after deleting Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer).

It is not clear exactly what problems Google has had that they still have no way to release the M1 version. I got the DTK M1 almost a year ago. I think Google got it even earlier. Yes, there was a problem with emulation, but everything else in the IDE could definitely be done.

At least a loner did it without too much trouble. There is roughness, but the speed of work is different from sky and earth. Working with a regular Android Studio on M1 is almost impossible, and even with this refinement amateur, everything flies like lighting.

This is an unofficial canary version of Android Studio Arctic Fox with emulators on the Apple Silicon. I’m using it and it works well in most cases.

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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.

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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.

Edit on 28th July 2021 🎉 🌈

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

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

Edit March 2021

You can simply use one of them and it’s working out of the box

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Android Studio начала поддерживать M1

По-прежнему многого не хватает, но основа Android Studio уже работает на ARM.

7 месяцев назад

Последняя Canary-сборка Android Studio (15) обеспечивает начальную нативную поддержку компьютеров Mac M1. По-прежнему многого не хватает, но основа Android Studio уже работает на ARM:

• Вы можете создавать и запускать JVM-приложения (компилятор C++ еще не готов).
• Вы можете использовать инструменты дизайна, например Layout Preview.
• Вы можете использовать встроенный эмулятор с Android 11 и Android 12

• Вы не можете заниматься разработкой на основе C, поскольку NDK и инструменты сборки еще не работают на ARM.
• После обновления до Canary 15 вы не сможете выполнять инкрементное обновление до следующей версии.
• Многие инструменты отладки не работают «из коробки». Это Database Inspector, Layout Inspector и другие. Но есть обходной путь.
• В эмуляторе есть некоторые проблемы с пользовательским интерфейсом.

Обязательно ознакомьтесь с постом в блоге Google, чтобы узнать больше.

Хотя сейчас эта сборка работает только для macOS, можно надеяться, что в будущем появится поддержка ARM для Windows или даже Linux, что может привести к разработке AS для Android.

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Apart from emulator, is android studio working fine in M1 macs

I currently have a windows laptop with an intel i5. I am looking to upgrade to an M1 mac. Emulation isn’t a problem for me(Virtualization is slower on ARM). Can any early adopter let me know if it is fast enough for basic android development and some Xcode?

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Available on Android Studio Arctic Fox (Beta)

The Beta version (Arctic Fox Beta 4) now has Apple Silicon support, so you can download it from Android Studio download archives. Look for, for example: Mac (Apple Silicon): android-studio-2020.3.1.19-mac_arm.zip (955253378 bytes) . Don’t use jetbrains toolbox because it is bit buggy, it downloaded an outdated version of Android Studio. I’ve noticed its also a day late on releases.

Serious performance issues (before May 2021)

I’ve tried to use Android Studio for the past couple of months, and to me, it is unusable, let alone at parity with running it on Intel. I’ve always been on the Canary version too. I keep telling myself the M1 is faster, but I in reality I only notice speed reduction and freezes when compared to MacBook Pro 16″ 2020 2.3GHz 8‑core Intel Core i9 or my Intel i7-9700K Hackintosh . I also use a physical device to dedicate more mac resources to the IDE.

• Very slow indexing/ navigation around the code base
• Very slow typing and clicking sometimes (general lag)
• Random freezes which require app restart
• The compile times are the least of my worries (see bottom section).

Unfortunately, it is still very slow. Here I measure how long ./gradlew assembleDebug takes after a warm up of the same ( ./gradle assembleDebug ):

• MacBook Pro 2.3GHz 8‑core Intel Core i9 VS. Mac M1 Mini
• 3 minutes and 1 second VS. 4 minutes and 46 secinds
• CPU Temperatures: 88 to 92C (+hot air blowing out 😅) VS. 41 to 45C

M1 chips are cool (in a temperature sense), but currently slow. I’ll update when a Apple Silicon optimized Android Studio comes out.

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