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Updated onAugust 23, 2021

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At Build 2018, Microsoftannouncedthe results of some fantastic work done by the WindowsHyper-Vteam with help from the Xamarin team. It’s a preview of the GoogleAndroid emulatorcompatible withHyper-V. The emulator is available on theWindows 10 April 2018 Update.

This means a lot for developers withHyper-Venables on their machines because they will be able to use an Android emulator that’s hardware-accelerated without the need to switch to Intel’s HAXM hypervisor.

You can use Google’s Android emulator with other Hyper-V technologies

You can use Google’s Android emulator side-by-side with otherHyper-V-basedtechnologies. These include Hyper-V VMs, the HoloLens emulator, Docker tooling, and more. Long story short, any Android developer on Windows who usesHyper-Vwill get the opportunity to use a fast Android emulator that will always support the latest APIs. More than that, it will also work with Google Play Services out of the box and even with all the features in the Android emulator including Quick Boot, geolocation, and camera as well.

Windows Hypervisor Platform comes with Windows 10 v1803

Windows Hypervisor Platform allows third-party visualization stacks to use the Windows Hypervisor for hardware acceleration. For instance, if you’re using theHyper-V, the stack will replace Intel HAXM as the hypervisor for the Android emulator.

Support for using the Windows Hypervisor as an accelerator for the Android emulator is in preview at the moment, and therefore it needs theWindows 10 April 2018 Update.

Necessary steps for trying out the preview

On Microsoft’s official blog, the tech giant details all the steps needed to try out the preview. Here they are:

You can also find out more data on how to configure theHyper-Vemulator and some known issueshere.

More about the topics:Android emulators,Hyper-V issues

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With KB5043178 to Release Preview Channel, Microsoft advises Windows 11 users to plug in when the battery is low#

Copilot in Outlook will generate personalized themes for you to customize the app#

Microsoft will raise the price of its 365 Suite to include AI capabilities#

Death Stranding Director’s Cut is now Xbox X|S at a huge discount#

Outlook will let users create custom account icons so they can tell their accounts apart easier#

Hyper-V Android Emulator is now available on Windows 10 v1803#

You can use Google’s Android emulator with other Hyper-V technologies#

Windows Hypervisor Platform comes with Windows 10 v1803#

Necessary steps for trying out the preview#