Android Studio Release Updates: Emulator 27.2.7 Canary

Platform
Android Studio
Google Play
Jetpack
Docs
Blog

Download
What's New
User Guide
Preview

Home
Platform
Android Studio
Google Play
Docs
Blog

Download a Preview
Install Alongside Stable
New Features
Release Updates

Updates archive

► 2024 2024 (83)
- ► November November (4)
- ► October October (8)
- ► September September (8)
- ► August August (9)
- ► July July (6)
- ► June June (7)
- ► May May (9)
- ► April April (9)
- ► March March (6)
- ► February February (8)
- ► January January (9)

► 2023 2023 (76)
- ► December December (4)
- ► November November (9)
- ► October October (7)
- ► September September (8)
- ► August August (3)
- ► July July (4)
- ► June June (6)
- ► May May (10)
- ► April April (4)
- ► March March (7)
- ► February February (9)
- ► January January (5)

► 2022 2022 (59)
- ► December December (3)
- ► November November (5)
- ► October October (8)
- ► September September (4)
- ► August August (4)
- ► July July (2)
- ► June June (7)
- ► May May (6)
- ► April April (5)
- ► March March (6)
- ► February February (5)
- ► January January (4)

► 2021 2021 (54)
- ► December December (3)
- ► November November (2)
- ► October October (6)
- ► September September (4)
- ► August August (5)
- ► July July (8)
- ► June June (4)
- ► May May (5)
- ► April April (1)
- ► March March (7)
- ► February February (4)
- ► January January (5)

► 2020 2020 (107)
- ► December December (7)
- ► November November (3)
- ► October October (8)
- ► September September (6)
- ► August August (11)
- ► July July (14)
- ► June June (10)
- ► May May (12)
- ► April April (11)
- ► March March (11)
- ► February February (6)
- ► January January (8)

► 2019 2019 (145)
- ► December December (16)
- ► November November (12)
- ► October October (10)
- ► September September (13)
- ► August August (12)
- ► July July (6)
- ► June June (9)
- ► May May (18)
- ► April April (14)
- ► March March (12)
- ► February February (10)
- ► January January (13)

▼ 2018 2018 (128)
- ► December December (13)
- ► November November (12)
- ► October October (10)
- ► September September (10)
- ► August August (16)
- ► July July (10)
- ► June June (13)
- ► May May (9)
- ▼ April April (11)
- ► March March (12)
- ► February February (9)
- ► January January (3)

► 2017 2017 (48)
- ► December December (3)
- ► November November (2)
- ► October October (8)
- ► September September (3)
- ► August August (4)
- ► July July (3)
- ► June June (3)
- ► May May (4)
- ► April April (5)
- ► March March (5)
- ► February February (6)
- ► January January (2)

► 2016 2016 (5)
- ► December December (3)
- ► November November (2)

Subscribe to updates

Posts

Posts

Android Developers
Android Studio
Preview
Release Updates

Emulator 27.2.7 Canary

Friday, April 27, 2018

Emulator 27.2.7 is now available in the Canary channel. It contains the following changes:

Fixed issues with some parts of the emulator UI being unresponsive if the Extended controls window was not opened at least once.

To address concerns of excessive memory usage, loading and saving of AVD snapshots has been optimized to only use RAM that is currently in the guest working set. This applies to Quick Boot snapshots saved automatically and to snapshots saved and loaded using the Save now and Load now buttons in the Settings panel of the Extended controls window.

On Windows with HAXM 7.2.0, AVD snapshot loads are optimized to load memory on demand, greatly decreasing snapshot load times. (HAXM 7.2.0 is not yet publicly released.)

Improved performance with Skia: For Android 8.1 (API 27) and Android P images, Android Emulator can render the Android UI with Skia. With Skia, UI rendering is smoother and uses fewer resources.

Currently, to use Skia, you need to manually enable it with the following commands in an adb shell:

su
setprop debug.hwui.renderer skiagl
stop
start

In upcoming Android P images and later, Skia will become the default renderer. Skia uses more OpenGL features than the current solution, so it’s important for us to get thorough test coverage across real-world scenarios. We would like to get feedback on this change as early as possible. Please file an issue if you experience problems with it.