Macbook Pro M1 Android Emulator

Setting up the environment

Macbook Pro M1 Android Emulator
Emulator For Macbook Air
Android Studio Emulator Mac M1
Macbook Pro M1 2021

Setup for iOS needs:

The Android emulator now works on the Apple M1 chip (Apple Silicon), but only in preview mode. This means that not all functionality is available. The new Big Sur MacOS software running on M1 Macs will support ALL Intel Mac software by using its built-in Rosetta-2 emulator. Apple used a similar emulator when transitioning INTO Intel software from PowerPC, so they have deep experience with the issues involved. MacBook Pro 2.3GHz 8‑core Intel Core i9 VS. 3 minutes and 1 second VS. 4 minutes and 46 secinds. CPU Temperatures: 88 to 92C (+hot air blowing out 😅) VS. M1 chips are cool (in a temperature sense), but currently slow. I'll update when a Apple Silicon optimized Android Studio comes out.

This is the first preview. This only works on M1 Apple Silicon Macs. It has a lot of rough edges. To use, open the.dmg, drag/drop to /Applications, then right click in /Applications and select Open; skip the developer identity verification check. The first launch may take a while. Files: android-emulator-m1-preview.dmg: Download this file.

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

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

Android

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. Microsoft office for mac 10.6 8 free download. 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.