Another free Android emulator for Windows is Genymotion. Much like Android Studio's emulator, it emulates the entire OS, but without installing additional developer tools.

An Android Emulator enables you to use Android OS on a Windows PC with your keyboard and mouse – allowing you to test much faster and more effectively.

The Android emulator, dubbed Project Astoria, would have let developers port full Android apps to Windows mobile phones by alter just a few lines of code.

The new MEmu emulator promises to bring Android not only to users of Windows PCs and laptops, but also to those using 2-in-1 devices and tablets that are Windows-based. Built with configuration ...

The Best Gaming Android Emulator - LDPlayer LDPlayer is a free Android emulator for PC running Android 5.1.1 Lollipop and 7.1.2 Nougat. It comes with many gamer-oriented features, such as keyboard ...

The emulator has new Layercake technology, which exploits hardware accelerators to improve the performance of Android games in Windows. The layer was not included in the Bluestacks alpha version.

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