Android Emulator For Macbook M1

Jan 09, 2021 After pressing the launch button you will get your Android application running in your ARM virtual emulator:-) Conclusion. In this post, we have seen that is possible to install Android Studio in Macbook Air M1 and use a virtual device even that your M1 doesn’t support VT-x. You can learn more about this emulator in the following references. For this reason, identifying a suitable Android Emulator for Macbook M1 is easier said than done.

Android Studio Mac M1

Setting up the environment

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

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. 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