Android Q Beta 3 emulator system images (revision 4) have been released concurrently. To enable game developers and graphics programmers to preview the latest graphics APIs on Android, 29.0.x emulators with Android Q Beta 3 system images allow running Vulkan 1.1 apps if the host GPU supports it (most recent Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD GPUs).

Known Issues

macOS support is not present, but planned for a future update.

Snapshots are not yet supported.

On Windows, there can be a flaky failure to map Vulkan memory. We will address this in a future HAXM update.

~/.android/advancedFeatures.ini

Vulkan = on

GLDirectMem = on

adb shell

su

Here's how to enable Vulkan apps to talk to the emulator. Add the following lines to(create this file if it doesn't exist already):This allows install and test of Vulkan apps with the emulator.For game / graphics developers, the emulator also supports ANGLE's OpenGL ES to Vulkan translation if Vulkan is enabled. More info Finally, If your GPU supports OpenGL interop via GL_EXT_memory_objects (most recent NVIDIA and AMD GPUs), you can also run the Skia Vulkan Android UI via the following sequence of commands (with a Google APIs image):