Enjoy the difference.Īnd here how it is done under Mac OS X (you can visit one article here - ): sudo hdid -nomount ram://256000 This will mount your /tmp folder into memory. Here is the way to do it in Linux: sudo gedit /etc/fstabĪdd the following line at the bottom: tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 Normally it goes through DiskIO, and the trick is to do it through much faster channel - memory. The reason why the emulator is much more faster - is that when the emulator is started, the image is expanded into /tmp folder - and all the communication goes through there. The trick is very simple - and I suppose some of you have already activated it - mount /tmp folder into memory. Well I have good news for you - you can speed it up, if you are using uX system (Unix like - Linux, Mac OS X, BSD). I cannot blame you - the emulator is awfully slow.

If you are developing for Android, you probably have already abandoned the emulator that comes with Android SDK, and are testing and debugging on a real device.

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