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A Smoother Ride: Android Emulator Stability and Performance Updates
The Android Studio team has initiated Project Quartz, a six-month initiative aimed at improving the stability, reliability, and performance of the Android Emulator. This project focused on fixing issues causing backend and UI crashes and freezes, updating the UI framework, hypervisor framework, and graphics libraries, and eliminating technical debt. As a result, the latest stable version of Android Studio has seen a 30% reduction in reported crashes. The team also enhanced telemetry and logging to better understand and identify crash causes, and added more testing to the pre-launch release process. They increased the number and frequency of end-to-end, automated, and integration tests on macOS, Microsoft Windows, and Linux, covering various scenarios including snapshot configurations, graphics card considerations, networking, Bluetooth functionality, and performance benchmarks. This comprehensive testing ensures a more reliable testing environment for developers. The team reduced open issues and bugs by 43.5%, from 4,605 to 2,605, and will continue to enhance the Android Emulator experience. Feedback from developers is crucial for improving the Android Emulator and Android Studio, and they can opt-in to share usage statistics and crashdumps.