If you've tried out the old Android emulator, then you know that launching it used to take at least several minutes. But I didn't, it actually loads that fast. The first time I started it, I thought I did something wrong. When you start the emulator, it loads in less than 10 seconds.
I took it for a spin and here's what it offers: New features Speeeeeed As it turns out, their engineers had been working on a brand new Android emulator, that was released to the public a few days ago. There is no straightforward way to add them to the emulator and you have to do it for every emulator you create. However, Genymotion has a big problem - the lack of support for Google applications. We wrote a blog post about it, so if you want you can read it here.
That's why, 2 years ago we switched to Genymontion which is both fast and reliable. It took ages to start, and even when (or if) it started, it would crash a lot and applications would load forever.
The emulator was so bad that it was almost impossible to use it. For years, Android developers have been struggling with the Android emulator.
