Android Emulator 27.3.1 is available in the Canary and Dev channels. Android Emulator 27.2.9 is available in the Beta channel.

27.3.1: Windows Hypervisor Platform for Hyper-V

To help preview emulator on Hyper-V hosts, Android Emulator 27.3.1 enables the Windows Hypervisor Platform emulation backend by default under the following conditions:

  • Running on an Intel CPU with VT-x and EPT on Windows 10 April 2018 Update or later
  • Hyper-V is running and Windows Hypervisor Platform has been enabled in Windows Optional Features
We plan to also enable the use of Windows Hypervisor Platform on AMD chips, but we are currently working through the following known issues:
  • Warning: Enabling Hyper-V on some AMD Ryzen machines can cause Windows to fail to boot.
  • There is a consistent failure to initialize the guest Android kernel when running with Windows Hypervisor Platform on AMD Ryzen machines.
Please let us know through Issuetracker if you experience problems with Android Emulator using Hyper-V.

27.2.9: Better DNS server detection

We fixed an issue on Windows that caused the emulator to be unable to connect to the internet because of incorrect DNS servers: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/70549904

We are aware of similar issues on recent macOS versions and are working to fix this. Please file an issue in Issuetracker if the emulator is having trouble connecting to the internet.