Friday, August 3, 2018

Emulator 28.0.2 Canary

Android Emulator 28.0.2 is now available in the Canary and Dev channels.

This update includes the following changes:
  • Windows
    • Fixed a crash on snapshot save when guest AVD RAM was set to 4 GB or greater.
    • We have noticed that some Windows emulator users have been unable to launch the emulator due to exceeding the RAM commit charge. We have detailed the issue in the Troubleshooting page.
  • macOS
    • Fixed sporadic crashes, including an abort due to opening too many instances of /dev/urandom.
  • Linux
    • Fixed issue that caused the emulator to fail to start after the first time if ADB was terminated forcefully.
  • Command Line
    • The -sysdir command line option now properly overrides the inferred system image directory. Issue
  • Graphics
    • Some older GPUs did not support OpenGL 2.1 or greater (which is required), or had reliability issues, resulting in crashes on start, freezes, or general inability to use the emulator on the default GPU setting. The emulator now auto-switches to the Swiftshader renderer if it detects that these GPUs are in use.