How do I create an Android simulator under Delphi 11.3 ?

[FreeDelphiPascal 25]

All tutorials for Delphi 10.4 show how to create an emulator using a GUI program called sdk manager.exe / avd manager.exe.
Under Delphi 11 (SDK-2525-22.0.48361) that program is not there anymore.

 

Related links:

 

Not about emulators:

 

About Emulators, for Delphi, but for Delphi 10.4:

 

Not about Delphi. Recommends installing Android Studio, but I am afraid that it will screw up my current SDK which was difficult to setup:

 

Official documentation (obsolete). Cannot find its D11 equivalent:

https://www.embarcadero.com/starthere/xe7/mobdevsetup/android/en/creating_an_android_emulator.html

Edited yesterday at 09:17 AM by FreeDelphiPascal

[Dave Nottage 583]

Just now, FreeDelphiPascal said:

Under Delphi 11 (SDK-2525-22.0.48361) that program is not there anymore.

Those executables have been removed from the SDK - now you need to use either the command line tool, or install Android Studio and use the Virtual Device Manager.

 

Note that running emulators on Windows can be horrendously slow. You're way better off using a real device.

[FreeDelphiPascal 25]

Just now, Dave Nottage said:

Note that running emulators on Windows can be horrendously slow. You're way better off using a real device.

I have a AMD Ryzen (I'm an AMD fan since 1995) at 4.7GHz. Do you think it is still too slow?

Edited yesterday at 09:19 AM by FreeDelphiPascal

[ToddFrankson 5]

5 hours ago, FreeDelphiPascal said:

I have a AMD Ryzen (I'm an AMD fan since 1995) at 4.7GHz. Do you think it is still too slow?

Yup

[Dave Nottage 583]

9 hours ago, FreeDelphiPascal said:

Do you think it is still too slow?

Most likely. The only bearable way I have found of using an Android emulator is to have a Mac with a silicon chip (e.g. M1, M2 etc), and run Arm64 emulators on it. Delphi can communicate with them using the relevant adb commands, along with a secure shell client such as PuTTY, all of which I describe in this video.