Android Emulators

[connda]

I've started playing around with an Android emulator, in this case Android X86.  I'm running it in a Virtualbox VM and I see some potential for its use.

Has anyone else played with Android emulation.  Any recommendations on other emulators regarding ease of use, functionality, and reliability?  And security.

Thoughts? 

[treetops]

Bluestacks is the one I see mentioned most often.  No idea how it performs.

[connda]

44 minutes ago, treetops said:

Bluestacks is the one I see mentioned most often.  No idea how it performs.

I'll give it a look.  Another one I found was BlissOS.

[KannikaP]

58 minutes ago, treetops said:

Bluestacks is the one I see mentioned most often.  No idea how it performs.

For me, absolutely perfectly, on three W11 PCs. Can install almost any apk.

[Woof999]

I use BlueStacks5 for IPTV on the desktop PC. For dev work I use Android Studio. It has quite a sophisticated emulator built in, with profile for specific phones and others that you can create yourself. In a previous life I used Genymotion, but its not free.

[KannikaP]

9 minutes ago, Woof999 said:

I use BlueStacks5 for IPTV on the desktop PC. For dev work I use Android Studio. It has quite a sophisticated emulator built in, with profile for specific phones and others that you can create yourself. In a previous life I used Genymotion, but its not free.

Bluestacks also has phone profiles built in or createable.

[Woof999]

Just now, KannikaP said:

Bluestacks also has phone profiles built in or createable.

 

I should have mentioned. For professional use, the ads etc on Bluestacks are a no go for me, hence I only use it for IPTV and so the phone profiles are worthless (to me). I fully understand why they have the ads - I don't work for free either.

[KannikaP]

2 minutes ago, Woof999 said:

 

I should have mentioned. For professional use, the ads etc on Bluestacks are a no go for me, hence I only use it for IPTV and so the phone profiles are worthless (to me). I fully understand why they have the ads - I don't work for free either.

I get no ads on my Bluestacks. Is it because I use Brave?

[Woof999]

4 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

I get no ads on my Bluestacks. Is it because I use Brave?

 

Possibly. I really mean the startup screen and the desktop area that is there for games and cannot be removed. I often have to screenshare with clients who have no sense of humour or fun. I can't be seen to be using something cost effective. It has to be "enterprise, best-of-breed, industry standard, state-of-the-art" and lots of other phrases that would give you a massive boost on bullsh$t bingo.

[connda]

Wow.  Total install size is around 7GB.  😳

[Digitalbanana]

I just use Windows Subsystem for Android and run Android IPTV with that works fine.

 

[Gottfrid]

Bluestacks is the superior one.

 

[connda]

I installed Bluestacks yesterday.  Man it's a monster as far as resources and it spreads itself all over Windows.  It took up 7 GB of space.
Plus the interface looks like a Gen-Z Zoomer dream -- games, games, games! But I just wanted a simple, functional Android emulator.  Ended up uninstalling it then spent another 15 minutes cleaning up all of the various software junk that was left behind that the Windows uninstaller didn't uninstall.

I like the concept but as Woof999 remarked, I'd like to see an Android emulation app that is cleaner, less cluttered, not geared to gamers to just to folks needed a simple Android emulator, and as such not such a resource monster.

So far I've also tried running Android x86 and BlissOS in a VM, but either functioned well.  Android x86 had the cleanest interface, BlissOS was a problem to install and run and once I got it installed was unstable.  And on Android x86 I just was unable to get the Android apps I wanted to use to run in that environment.  Maybe someday the emulators will become more robust but we ain't there yet.

 

 

Edited May 26 by connda

[Digitalbanana]

On 5/26/2024 at 9:59 AM, connda said:

Man it's a monster as far as resources and it spreads itself all over Windows.

None of that nonsense with Windows Subsystem for Android.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 5/25/2024 at 7:28 PM, connda said:

I've started playing around with an Android emulator, in this case Android X86.  I'm running it in a Virtualbox VM and I see some potential for its use.

Has anyone else played with Android emulation.  Any recommendations on other emulators regarding ease of use, functionality, and reliability?  And security.

Thoughts? 

Hmmmmm. I thought this was going to be about android sex bots. How disappointing.