I'm having trouble getting my emulator to work on my m1 mac. Currently, I am waiting on my physical android phone to arrive so I have to use an emulator for the moment. I have looked at the official. Has anyone had luck installing and running Ryujinx? It's a Switch emulator for Windows and Mac. I'm not able to install it because I'm having issues with my Homebrew(can't install gtk+3). I feel that it would run quite well on an M1 Mac considering Dolphin Wii games run perfectly.
I just got a new Mac Mini with M1 CPUs. The first thing I did was install Chrome. The next thing I did was install Flutter.
So I went to flutter.dev and downloaded the latest build. I extracted it, then created a new .zshrc and added flutter to my PATH. Then I ran flutter. It started downloading the Dart SDK, then threw this error:
A quick search on Google led me to this post. I installed Rosetta, then made Terminal.app open with Rosetta. For now I'll do this at the cost of performance, so that I don't have to hunt down which ones are compatible and which ones are not compatible with M1 yet.
And now that it's running fine, I realize there was indeed a note on installing Flutter on Macs with M1 processors:
Mac Mini M1 16gb
Android Studio, Android Emulator, Visual Studio code are not ready for a stable build for M1, but it's being worked on. Things should get better in a few months at most. Until then there's always Rosetta.
Selecting an arm64 version of Android R did not work. So I had to use the emulator preview release.
It works mostly fine, except for WebView, says the documentation. When I tried it, it worked indeed. Then I launched my app, and clicked on the button to sign in. I'm using Firebase Auth, and what it does is, it makes you sign in... in a WebView. The WebView never showed up, and so I am unable to test my app in the emulator.
Can I run the Intel version of the emulator with Rosetta? No because the emulator uses virtualization, says the Android Studio team.
Android Studio Apple M1 Emulator
So I am stuck using my slower MacBook until they release a proper emulator.
Fast forward a few weeks, and it looks like new versions of the Emulator have been released. According to this post, it's even downloadable through the AVD Manager in Android Studio!
I followed the steps and downloaded the same image. However, the Emulator refused to run. The error was something like 'The Emulator was killed'. A quick search on Google reveals that quite a few users ran into the same issue a few days ago:
It looks like version 3 is broken, but version 2 isn't. The users show a way to manually replace that image with an old one, but I simply opted for downloading the separate Alpha Emulator from GitHub at https://github.com/google/android-emulator-m1-preview/releases/tag/0.3.
Mac Mini M1 Android Emulator Online
This version has WebViews, so I was able to run my Flutter app and sign in with Google. That will suffice for now!