05-10-2021

Android Emulator On Macbook M1

Setting up the environment

Dec 04, 2020 This is a preview of some basic Android emulation functionality on the M1. There are still many issues, but apps work at a basic level. To be updated soon with more fixes. Best Android Emulator For Mac to Run Android Apps and Games on your Mac or Macbook. Android Emulators Mac. Top 5 Compilation.

Setup for iOS needs:

Node (with NVM)
Watchman brew install watchman
Xcode (install from the App Store)
Xcode Command Line Tools xcode-select --install
Accept the Software License for Xcode sudo xcodebuild -license. It'll prompt you anyway when you run Xcode for the first time.
CocoaPods sudo gem install cocoapods

Homebrew

Install Homebrew if you don't have it installed already

Node LTS with NVM

iOS

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Open Terminal / iTerm with Rosetta (Get Info > Open using Rosetta)
Prefix the CocoaPods related commands with arch -x86_64

Android

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Install JDK 8 brew install --cask adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8
Install Android Studio
Install Android Emulator for M1

The Android Emulator doesn't work out of the box yet. Luckily, there is a Preview build by Google that supports Apple Silicon M1 chip based MacBooks. You'll have to download and install it separately. Most things work.

Troubleshooting

command not found for brew or nvm. Make sure you have a ~/.zshrc file. On a fresh new M1 MacBook, there is no ~/.zshrc or ~/.zprofile created and the $PATH doesn't get updated because of it. Create a ~/.zshrc file and run the commands to install Homebrew and NVM again.

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