2026-09-10
Emulators
New: all Android Test Device (ATD) emulator models now have 4GiB of RAM instead of 2GiB. This should reduce the amount of OOMs and memory pressure on the emulator, especially with larger apps and test suites.
NOTE: enterprise customers need to update to
ew-cli1.4.3 / Gradle plugin 1.7.3 / GitHub action 1.1.1 / CircleCI orb 0.2.1 or later to get this change.
ew-cli 1.4.3
- New (enterprise customers only): ATD emulators now have 4GiB of RAM instead of 2GiB. Customers on the Startup and Scaleup plans get this change immediately without having to upgrade
ew-cli.
gradle-plugin 1.7.3
- New (enterprise customers only): ATD emulators now have 4GiB of RAM instead of 2GiB. Customers on the Startup and Scaleup plans get this change immediately without having to upgrade the plugin.
- Maintenance: bumped default
ew-cliversion to 1.4.3.
GitHub actions emulator-wtf/actions@v1.1.1
- New (enterprise customers only): emulators with API version 29 and higher now have 4GiB of RAM instead of 2GiB. Customers on the Startup and Scaleup plans get this change immediately without having to upgrade the action.
- Improved: we increased the maximum APK size to 1GiB.
- Maintenance: bumped default
ew-cliversion to 1.4.3.
CircleCI orb emulator-wtf/emulator-wtf@0.2.1
- New (enterprise customers only): emulators with API version 29 and higher now have 4GiB of RAM instead of 2GiB. Customers on the Startup and Scaleup plans get this change immediately without having to upgrade the orb.
- Improved: we increased the maximum APK size to 1GiB.
- Maintenance: bumped default
ew-cliversion to 1.4.3.