Running into hardware acceleration issues with the android_test job

[DaveyNedap]

Orb version

6.8.1

What happened

When running the android_test job we run into the following issue during the Start Android Emulator (background) step:

ERROR   | x86_64 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration!
CPU acceleration status: Android Emulator requires an Intel processor with VT-x and NX support.  (VT-x is not supported)
More info on configuring VM acceleration on macOS:
https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-acceleration#vm-mac
General information on acceleration: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-acceleration.

This is our current config for the android_test job

      - rn/android_test:
          detox_configuration: android.emu.release
          node_version: '16.9.1'
          # Disabled Yarn cache because of issues: https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-circleci-orb/issues/66
          yarn_cache: false
          xcode_version: '13.2.1'
          # requires:
          #   - build_android_release

Expected behavior

To be able to run the emulator in the rn/android_test

[jesperjohansson]

I'm having the same issue. Thought I could try running $ANDROID_HOME/extras/intel/Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager/silent_install.sh but extras doesn't seem to exist on the VM.

[jesperjohansson]

I finally got Detox on Android emulator working on CircleCI using their Android orb:

version: 2.1

orbs:
  rn: react-native-community/[email protected]
  android: circleci/[email protected] # Added orb

jobs:
  android_build_detox:
    executor:
      name: rn/linux_android
      resource_class: 'medium'
    steps:
      - checkout
      - rn/yarn_install
      - run: yarn detox build -c android.emu.release
      - persist_to_workspace:
          root: ~/project
          paths:
            - android/app/build

  # Added job
  android_test:
    executor:
      name: android/android-machine
      resource-class: medium
      tag: 2021.10.1
    steps:
      - attach_workspace:
          at: .
      - android/create-avd:
          avd-name: Pixel_API_29_AOSP
          install: true
          system-image: system-images;android-29;default;x86
      - android/start-emulator:
          avd-name: Pixel_API_29_AOSP
          no-window: true
          post-emulator-launch-assemble-command: ""
      - run: npm install --global yarn
      - run: yarn detox test -c android.emu.release

[DaveyNedap]

@jesperjohansson Thanks for this! We also switched to the android-machine yesterday and we almost got it working.

However, I do think that this should work in the orb without the use of a different orb/executor.