appium/docs/android-hax-emulator.md

Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager

If you find the android emulator a slow and your system runs on an Intel® cpu, you can check out HAXM. HAXM let's you leverage your hardware for virtualization accelerating the emulator.

• To install HAXM open the Android SDK Manager, you will find the package under Extras.
• You can find all relevent documentation on Intel's website
• This will require an x86 emulator image