Macbook Pro M1 Android Emulator

• Android Emulator For Apple M1
• Android Studio Emulator Mac M1

Setting up the environment

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. As shown by developers, the emulator on M1 can render 8.94 frames with one watt of power, while the Intel MacBook Pro renders 1.38 frames per watt. There’s no denying it; macOS M1 hardware kicks.

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

Android Emulator For Apple M1

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 Studio Emulator Mac M1

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. 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.

Add this to you Podfile

Two options:

• Run on a different port react-native start --port=8088
• OR find out what program is using 8081 sudo lsof -i :8081 and kill it kill -9 1234

incorrect architecture 'x86_64' errors

add this to the Podfile

run pod install afterwards

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