So the best performant emulators are X86 based but if you want to run those ARM builds, the latest AVD which was produced was Android 7.1.1 Nougat API level … How x86 emulation works on ARM. One big problem with android emulators in android studio was that, many of the release binaries from play store or from developers were of armeabi-v7a or arm64-v8a format.