How to get rid of slow android emulator during app development?

We know that Android emulator starts even slower than the PC itself. But a simple solution to get rid of slower booting of droid emulator is -

Solution when emulator is running -

Do not close the emulator until you are done with all build testings :-)

Simply run your android project and never close the emulator window until you are done with your work for the time, i am working with Eclipse and retest app builds as fast as we do with J2ME. All work the IDE has to do is upload/update the apk instead of relaunching of the emulator window again and again.


Solution #2 - Use Android-x86 in VirtualBox (or VMWare etc).

I don't want to write same thing which someone has already done. Please read the process in this page how to setup android in VirtualBox and use it for development.

http://www.andreybutov.com/2011/10/14/how-to-set-up-a-faster-android-emulator/


Now, most probably you will encounter "where is Host-Only adapter" option?
For that, Go to
File -> Preferences -> Network -> Add new Host-Only Network -> vboxnet0

Now upon selecting host-only network will show vboxnet0 instead of "no item selected".


Happy Droidevelopment :-)

Very good multimedia converters.

I was searching for a converter that can convert audio to mobile formats, i found SUPER (C), it is a great utility for multimedia workers. One more software i found excellent for audio production/conversion is "Extreme Sample Converter".

1. SUPER (C)
Link: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

It can convert Audio/videos to many formats including rare MMF (Yamaha's SMAF mobile format, but i haven't tested it). AMR, 3GP,  common audio and videos formats like FLV, SWF, AVI, formats for portable devices like IPhone, BlueRay, Nintendo DS (DPG), etc.


2. Extreme Sample Converter
Link: http://www.extranslator.com/

It can convert to almost all console, mobile, DLS, SF2 sound fonts, VSTi, AKAI, FLAC, YAMAHA etc containers. I converted Microsoft Windows (actually Roland) "General Midi DLS", gm.dls to gm.sf2, SoundFont and using in Midi Synthesis.