Add option to toggle Linux hardware acceleration

src/emulator-manager.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ export async function launchEmulator(
   avdName: string,
   emulatorOptions: string,
   disableAnimations: boolean,
-  disableSpellChecker: boolean
+  disableSpellChecker: boolean,
+  disableLinuxHardwareAcceleration: boolean
 ): Promise<void> {
   // create a new AVD
   const profileOption = profile.trim() !== '' ? `--device '${profile}'` : '';
@@ -32,8 +33,9 @@ export async function launchEmulator(
   // start emulator
   console.log('Starting emulator.');
 
-  // turn off hardware acceleration on Linux
-  if (process.platform === 'linux') {
+  //turn off hardware acceleration on Linux
+  if (process.platform === 'linux' && disableLinuxHardwareAcceleration) {
+    console.log('Disabling Linux hardware acceleration.');
     emulatorOptions += ' -accel off';
   }
 

src/input-validator.ts

@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ export function checkDisableSpellchecker(disableSpellchecker: string): void {
   }
 }
 
+export function checkDisableLinuxHardwareAcceleration(disableLinuxHardwareAcceleration: string): void {
+  if (!isValidBoolean(disableLinuxHardwareAcceleration)) {
+    throw new Error(`Input for input.disable-linux-hw-accel should be either 'true' or 'false'.`);
+  }
+}
+
 export function checkEmulatorBuild(emulatorBuild: string): void {
   if (isNaN(Number(emulatorBuild)) || !Number.isInteger(Number(emulatorBuild))) {
     throw new Error(`Unexpected emulator build: '${emulatorBuild}'.`);

src/main.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import * as core from '@actions/core';
 import { installAndroidSdk } from './sdk-installer';
-import { checkApiLevel, checkTarget, checkArch, checkDisableAnimations, checkEmulatorBuild, checkDisableSpellchecker } from './input-validator';
+import { checkApiLevel, checkTarget, checkArch, checkDisableAnimations, checkEmulatorBuild, checkDisableSpellchecker, checkDisableLinuxHardwareAcceleration } from './input-validator';
 import { launchEmulator, killEmulator } from './emulator-manager';
 import * as exec from '@actions/exec';
 import { parseScript } from './script-parser';
@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ async function run() {
     const disableSpellchecker = disableSpellcheckerInput === 'true';
     console.log(`disable spellchecker: ${disableSpellchecker}`);
 
+    // disable linux hardware acceleration
+    const disableLinuxHardwareAccelerationInput = core.getInput('disable-linux-hw-accel');
+    checkDisableLinuxHardwareAcceleration(disableLinuxHardwareAccelerationInput);
+    const disableLinuxHardwareAcceleration = disableLinuxHardwareAccelerationInput === 'true';
+    console.log(`disable Linux hardware acceleration: ${disableLinuxHardwareAcceleration}`);
+
     // emulator build
     const emulatorBuildInput = core.getInput('emulator-build');
     if (emulatorBuildInput) {
@@ -108,7 +114,7 @@ async function run() {
     await installAndroidSdk(apiLevel, target, arch, emulatorBuild, ndkVersion, cmakeVersion);
 
     // launch an emulator
-    await launchEmulator(apiLevel, target, arch, profile, cores, sdcardPathOrSize, avdName, emulatorOptions, disableAnimations, disableSpellchecker);
+    await launchEmulator(apiLevel, target, arch, profile, cores, sdcardPathOrSize, avdName, emulatorOptions, disableAnimations, disableSpellchecker, disableLinuxHardwareAcceleration);
 
     // execute the custom script
     try {