Android Development By Joe Hindy. Being able to run apps and games natively on Windows 11 may make emulator use more or less The best Android emulators for PC and Mac. The three main uses for Android emulators There are three main uses for emulators. Get it on BlueStacks. LDPlayer is a lightweight Android emulator focusing on gaming performance. Running Android Nougat 7. This is one of the few emulators on the list that gets active updates to improve compatibility. You install it as a Google Chrome extension.
It then gives Chrome the ability to run Android apps and games albeit with limited support. From there, you have to obtain APKs and load them in. As an added rub, you may need to use a tool to change the APK in order to make it compatible. There are a lot more steps to make this work than most other Android emulators for PC. On the plus side, though, it works with any operating system that can run an instance of Chrome macOS, Linux, Windows, etc. We linked to the official GitHub where you can find detailed instructions for its use.
Bliss is something a little bit different. It works as an Android emulator for PC via a virtual machine. However, it can also just flat run on your computer through a USB stick.
The boot-from-USB option is definitely a power user option and not recommended for less intense use cases. The USB installation method is even more complicated, but it lets your computer actually run Android natively from boot. That makes Bliss a super unique emulator if you can make it through the steps to the end. Of course, it only really runs well if your system is compatible so be prepared with a backup of your current operating system. You can also find more info about this on its XDA-Developers thread here.
The emulator downloaded and installed fine and the games we tested ran just fine. This one is not good for productivity or developmental testing. However, if you have an itch for mobile FPS gaming along with some titles, this is actually a fairly decent gaming emulator and it boasts a good collection of newer titles. Plus, the keyboard controls and performance is good. Genymotion Price: Free with paid options. MeMU is another excellent Android emulator that seems to do quite well with gamers.
One of its biggest features is support for both AMD and Intel chipsets. You can even run multiple instances at once for multiple games or testing features.
The emulator gets updates on a fairly frequent basis. Users also get access to Google Play Store. Verdict: PrimeOS is one of the worthy options among Android emulators for Windows 10 originated from the Android-x86 project.
In case you know it, this emulator will be convenient for you. There are menu, taskbar, actions, and other keys on the desktop. Besides, you can enjoy multitasking feature with maximize, minimize, close, and resize options. You may freely turn off the multi-window option if needed. DecaPro key mapping is an Android option to play with mice and keypads.
You can also share the opinion in the accessible feedback app. Verdict: ARChon differs from other emulators. Besides, there may appear a necessity to change APKs to make them compatible. It starts programs when a user loads Android apps they are converted into ChromeOS apps. Still, Andy provides smooth synchronization between desktop and a device, connects Android with macOS or Windows to run apps, has push notifications and lockup. You can download the app from the browser right in AndyOS, use the latest Android OS and test the variety of apps for chatting and spending time pleasantly on the desktop.
Unlike most emulators, Andy supports one-of-kind options as remote gaming on the PC from a mobile, ARM backing, and installation of the apps right from the browser. KO Player is free and really popular among users. Using it, you may open all the apps from the Google market.
Due to modern x86 Kernel technology, the KO Player is the fastest emulator among competitors, compatible with a huge number of devices. Powerful simulations. Mimic real-world conditions with a variety of device sensor simulations.
Device profiles. Device profiles enable you to target a wide range of Android hardware. Work your own way. Best with Visual Studio. Deeply-integrated debugging for cross-platform and Android projects. The new standard. No more fighting with complicated, slow, and fragile Android emulators. Use your computer keyboard to type characters and enter emulator shortcuts.
To perform common actions with the emulator, use the panel on the right side, as described in table 2. You can use keyboard shortcuts to perform many common actions in the emulator. To pan in zoom mode, hold Control Command on Mac while pressing the arrow keys on the keyboard.
The screen recording controls are in the Screen record tab of the Extended Controls window. To begin screen recording, click the Start recording button in the Screen record tab. To stop recording, click Stop recording.
Controls for playing and saving the recorded video are at the bottom of the Screen record tab. You can also record and save a screen recording from the emulator using the following command on the command line:.
To take a screenshot of the virtual device, click the Take screenshot button. By default, the screenshot is saved on your computer desktop. To change the location to which screenshots are saved, use the Screenshot save location control in the Settings category in the emulator's Extended controls window.
The emulator supports the use of basic camera functionality on your virtual device for earlier Android versions. Android 11 and higher supports the following additional Android Emulator camera capabilities:. You can use the virtual scene camera in a virtual environment to experiment with augmented reality AR apps made with ARCore. For information on using the virtual scene camera in the emulator, see Run AR apps in Android Emulator.
This feature can be used to import custom images such as QR codes for use with any camera-based app. For more information, see Add Augmented Images to the scene. You can greatly reduce the time it takes to test common AR actions by using the preset macros in the emulator. For example, you can use a macro to reset all the device's sensors to their default state. Before using macros, follow the steps in Run AR apps in Android Emulator to set up the virtual scene camera for your app, run your app on the emulator, and update ARCore.
Then, follow these steps to use emulator macros:. Use the extended controls to send data, change device properties, control apps, and more. To open the Extended controls window, click More in the emulator panel. You can use keyboard shortcuts to perform many of these tasks. The emulator lets you simulate "my location" information: the location where the emulated device is currently located.
For example, if you click My Location in Google Maps and then send a location, the map shows it. Controls for the device's location information are organized under two tabs: Single points and Routes. In the Single points tab, you can use the Google Maps webview to search for points of interest, just as you would when using Google Maps on a phone or in a browser.
When you search for or click on a location in the map, you can save the location by selecting Save point near the bottom of the map. All of your saved locations are listed on the right side of the Extended controls window. To set the emulators location to the location you have selected on the map, click the Set location button near the bottom right of the Extended controls window.
Similar to the Single points tab, the Routes tab provides a Google Maps webview that you can use to create a route between two or more locations. To create and save a route, do the following:. To simulate the emulator following the route you saved, select the route from the list of Saved routes and click Play route near the bottom right of the Extended controls window.
To stop the simulation, click Stop route. To continuously simulate the emulator following the specified route, enable the switch next to Repeat playback.
To change how quickly the emulator follows the specified route, select an option from the Playback speed dropdown. The speed defaults to the Delay value Speed 1X. You can increase the speed by double Speed 2X , triple Speed 3X , and so on.
The emulator allows you to deploy your app to multiple displays, which support customizable dimensions and can help you test apps that support multi- window and multi- display.
While a virtual device is running, you can add up to two additional displays as follows:. The emulator lets you simulate various network conditions. You can approximate the network speed for different network protocols, or you can specify Full , which transfers data as quickly as your computer allows. Specifying a network protocol is always slower than Full. You can also specify the voice and data network status, such as roaming. The defaults are set in the AVD. You can simulate the battery properties of a device to see how your app performs under different conditions.
To select a Charge level , use the slider control. If the AVD has the directional pad enabled in the hardware profile, you can use the directional pad controls with the emulator. However, not all devices can support the directional pad; for example, an Android watch. The buttons simulate the following actions:.
This control can simulate 10 different fingerprint scans. You can use it to test fingerprint integration in your app. This feature is disabled for Android 5. This control lets you test your app against changes in device position, orientation, or both.
For example, you can simulate gestures such as tilt and rotation. The accelerometer doesn't track the absolute position of the device: it just detects when a change is occurring. The control simulates the way accelerometer and magnetometer sensors would respond when you move or rotate a real device.
You must enable the accelerometer sensor in your AVD to use this control. These values include gravity. For example, if the device is suspended in outer space, it would experience zero acceleration all of x, y, and z will be 0.
When the device is on Earth and laying screen-up on top of a table, the acceleration is 0, 0, and 9. To rotate the device around the x, y, and z axes, select Rotate and do one of the following:. See Computing the device's orientation for more information about how yaw, pitch, and roll are calculated. To move the device horizontally x or vertically y , select Move and do one of the following:.
As you adjust the device, the Resulting values fields change accordingly. These are the values that an app can access. For more information about these sensors, see Sensors overview , Motion sensors , and Position sensors. The emulator can simulate various position and environment sensors. It lets you adjust the following sensors so you can test them with your app:.
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