API 27 Google Play System Image (rev 3) is now available

A new version of the Android 8.1 system image is now available for the Android Emulator. You can get it from the SDK Manager as "Google Play Intel x86 Atom System Image", API 27, revision 3.

We're excited to bring you this update to the Android 8.1 system image because it is now a CTS compliant image that includes the Play Store!

We've also fixed the following major issues:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/70919913 - API 27 images have no ro.opengles.version set

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/73230983 - E/Google Maps Android API: Google Maps Android API v2 only supports devices with OpenGL ES 2.0 and above

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/70823706 - 27 API emulator is very laggy.

This API 27 image also contains a working implementation of Camera HAL3 (https://source.android.com/devices/camera/camera3), allowing developers to use the latest camera APIs.