Supercharge Your Android Emulator Speed - Developer.com. Interesting - Intel has its own Android images based on x86 and a virtualization driver that allows the Android emulator to run at native speed. The downside is that it conflicts with VirtualBox and you can only run one or the other. But if you absolutely have to work with the Android emulator (e.g. because you don't have a developer device with you or because you can't have all device forms as hardware), this is definitely still interesting.