This might help speed the emulator, if you haven't installed it already.
https://software.intel.com/en-us/android/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager

On May 15, 2015, at 9:27 AM, Andrew Sillers <apsillers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a quick note that I just merged master into the phonegap branch, so it should have the most recent UI and Netrek protocol support now. It runs *very* slowly on my Android emulator; I'm going to test it on a physical device soon.