At the moment, it only runs on Intel or AMD processors, but ARM support will be coming soon.

BlueStacks is a popular Android emulator that brings Android apps to PCs. Then as usual click and drag the emulator into Application folder.Now if you open Application folder in your Finder you can see a new Application without icon it is our Android Emulator.NOTE: BlueStacks is not supported on Mac computers older than 2014 and Mac computers with M1 chips.

However as usual Mac OS GateKeeper will verify this DMG file before executing it select skip option to bypass the verification process because Mac OS will report an error and prevent the file from executing.

Click on the DMG file in downloads folder of your Mac.

Click on releases option and download the latest preview version by clicking of android emulator m1 preview.dmg.

Head on to Android Emulator M1 Preview repo by Google which is still under beta but it works fine but with some exceptions which is mentioned in the readme file of that repo.

You can debug your App with a physical device connected to Android Studio.īut sometimes If you don’t have access to a physical device you can use Android emulator which is specifically made for M1 chips which is still under preview.I doesn’t comes bundled with Android Studio. So most of the third party developer tools like Android Studio,Unreal Engine,HomeBrew are not yet optimised for ARM architecture.Though Apple provide a solution by using Rosetta 2 which is a dynamic binary translation which can translate x86 instructions to ARM instructions so that Intel based apps can run in M1 Mac.However they also have some limitation. However there are several Softwares which still uses x86 architecture. It uses small and highly optimized set of instructions. First was in 1994 where they switched from Motorola to Power PC and second was in 2000s where they switched from Power PC to Intel Chips and now from Intel to M1.Since M1 Chips are based on ARM(Advanced RISC Machines ) architecture which means in RISC architecture, the instruction set of processor is simplified to reduce the execution time. Apple recently ditched Intel processors and started making their own processors, which is not new because currently Apple is switching their Mac processors for third time. Hello everyone in this article we are going to see how you can setup Android emulator in M1 ARM Chip Mac.

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