[antback]

try using genymotion. it takes 20 seconds on my mbp to starting up.

[BitMastro]

I'm always surprised when people complain about the slowness of the emulator and they haven't tried genymotion or the x86 emulator.

I mean, they're tools developed for your job, learn to use them!

It would be like coding using a plain text editor.. you can do it, but it's not what you're supposed to do.