Make sure to enable snapshots when creating an emulator. It will still have the ridiculous startup the very first time, but after that startup is quick and shut

Make sure to enable snapshots when creating an emulator. It will still have the ridiculous startup the very first time, but after that startup is quick and shutdown is slow. Much in line with what the blog author is saying, this feature was added after the initial launch and isn't checked by default. Also make sure you aren't closing the emulator each time you finish running. Just leave it open in the background and running the app again later will deploy to the same instance as last time without any startup at all. Sorry if you know all this, you'd be surprised how many people don't at Android meetups and the like. :)