The Windows Hypervisor Platform enables various third-party virtualization stacks in order to utilize the Windows Hypervisor for hardware acceleration. Microsoft introduced the Windows Hypervisor Platform with Windows 10 April 2018 update. But with this new emulator, Microsoft made a significant improvement and they assure user’s that it will deliver great performance. Hyper-V was causing a lot of trouble with graphics drivers and performance of it wasn’t acceptable at all on Windows 8 / 8.1. The preview also supports almost all key features in emulator including camera, geolocation, and Quick Boot.

In other words, Android developer who also uses Hyper-V can use a fast Android emulator that will support latest Android APIs, out of the box support for Google Play Services and more.

The Hyper-V Android emulator preview also allows developers to use Google’s Android emulator side-by-side with other Hyper-V based technology such as Hyper-V VMs, Docker tooling, the HoloLens emulator, and more.

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