In this tutorial, we will show how to speed up Android emulation by running the Android emulator on OSX rather than inside Parallels running Windows using a SSH tunnel. In other tutorials, we’ve shown how to Build a Cordova app for iOS using Parallels so you can use the tools from your Mac. Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova allow you to build cross-platform, multi-device hybrid apps based on Apache Cordova. Run the Android emulator on OSX when using Windows in Parallels