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Asked: 2026-06-10T09:07:15+00:00

I can’t understand how the android emulator behaves, sometimes it runs some applications that

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I can’t understand how the android emulator behaves, sometimes it runs some applications that are using GLES 2.0 extensions and other times won’t run anything and gives me several errors about a missing “EGL configuration”.

http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/faster-emulator-with-better-hardware.html

here it is the announce for an emulator with full GLES 2 support, and here i publish a compiled sample from this book which is one between many other app that won’t run under an ARM emulator with ICS or JB.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nl7aej

My question is not about this apk, i publish this apk just to give an idea, i would like to know what is wrong with the emulator itself and how i have to interpret the Google statements about this GLES support.

I also want to ask if using the flag

-gpu on

like this

emulator64-arm -avd avdName -gpu on -qemu -m 2047 &

with an avd that is not created with gpu emulation support, it’s the same thing as creating a new avd with explicit gpu accelaration.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The main problem about the GLES 2.0 support with the emulator is that sometimes the EGL configuration and the emulation drivers are not so perfect, i found the GLES configuration on the X86 Ice Cream Sandwich image from Intel very disappointing for example, and worst if compared to the previous Gingerbread release for X86.

    In the end i suggest to look for the EGL and driver configuration, but it can be a long road.

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