The new SDK puts an end to the rather sluggish Android emulator and emulation now supports hardware-accelerated on computers with a corresponding CPU. Supports are Windows, Mac and Linux for Intel CPUs with Intel VT extension. The virtualization technology from AMD processors (AMD-V, SVM) can currently only use Linux for the optimization of the Android emulator. The setup is quite complicated, but on developer.android.com described in great detail . Also note that the acceleration only for machines with Android 2.3 or later works, but not for version 2.2 or older.

Another important innovation of the current Dalvik Debug Monitor SDK affects the Server (DDMS). About these can be customized with the SDK in version r17 network statistics in real-time trace. This allows developers and other interested parties live right now, how much data via wireless LAN or over the 3G/4G-Netzwerk be sent. Again, there is but one important limitation, because the real-time statistics work only on Android 4.0.3, the developer also needs to adapt its app accordingly, so this shows up in statistics.

The SDK is available now at r17 developer.android.com available for download. There is also the list of all the new features in Android version r17 .

In addition the new version contains the following improvements:

• Support btrfs, extfs, exFAT;
• Support for printers using the package Guttenprint;
• Support for PAE;
• Improved localization, mapping characters of Chinese and Japanese keyboard layouts;
• MediaKit for audio / video files;
• Stack and tile placement of windows, the support teams on combinations of keys on the keyboard;
• The new graphical interface of some applications (BootManager, DiskUsage, MediaPlayer, ReadOnlyBootPrompt and ShowImage);
• Improved API to draw the desktop items;
• Overall, more than 950 bug fixes over version Aplha 2.

It is also worth noting that while the project supports only x86 architecture and the following system requirements: CPU at least Pentium II 400 MHz, 128 MB RAM and 700 MB hard disk space.

Of course, the project is still under intensive development (local bugtracker currently more than 2,000 open tickets), so it is welcome bug reports .

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