[Adam Neismith]

Your laptop is already doing the development work, so piling another heavy emulator on top of it isn’t doing you any favours. A separate virtual environment makes more sense when you only need to spin up another Android version, install the APK, check the problem and shut it down again. Before choosing one, read about the best virtual machine for Android here: https://gologin.com/blog/best-virtual-machine-for-android/ . Pay attention to which options let you pick the Android version and install your own APK without a load of extra setup. That should narrow the field down to the ones that are actually useful for testing.