Android emulators for PC - the best?

[Crossy]

Anyone using an Android emulator other than Bluestacks?

 

Experiences? Speed?

 

Bluestacks works quite well but despite throwing PC resources at it the experience is nothing like the tablet sitting next to the PC on the same network.

 

And yes, the app in question is not available for the PC.

[janclaes47]

Bluestacks is the best of the worst.

 

No emulator will give you the same experience as an Android device, in fact they will give you more headaches then advantages.

 

Why not connect the tablet to your PC monitor?

[Crossy]

Yeah, I'm rapidly coming to that conclusion. I'd really like an integrated solution, I want to run the android app in a window until something interesting happens (like a test wicket) then I can zoom and watch the replay. All the time still earning a crust on the other screens.

 

Tried Android in a VirtualBox VM, even worse performance.

 

Sitting the tab next to the PC doesn't really work the same even with the audio through a decent speaker.

 

[KittenKong]

3 hours ago, Crossy said:

Yeah, I'm rapidly coming to that conclusion. I'd really like an integrated solution, I want to run the android app in a window until something interesting happens (like a test wicket) then I can zoom and watch the replay. All the time still earning a crust on the other screens.

 

VNC or Teamviewer or similar?

[Crossy]

Andyroid seems to work well too

 

https://www.andyroid.net/

 

 

[KhunHeineken]

 

Currently using XePlayer with no complaints.  I'm not a heavy user, but everything I need it to do, it does.

 

http://www.xeplayer.com/

 

[Stocky]

I use Andyroid , I got hacked off with Bluestacks asking I install apps I don't want.

[dddave]

I sort of scanned an article in the press a few days ago to the effect that Microsoft has issued a very strong policy statement that it intends to aggressively defend it's X86 architecture against Android emulation.  Sorry I don't recall the specifics but details should be easy to find. 

[rawhod]

Andyroid was OK but wanted to take over my computer

 

I now use Droid4x which is fast and easy to use...

[katana]

When I tried Bluestacks a few years ago I found it dragged my computer to a crawl and seemed to have about 57 different running process using up resources. Quickly got rid of it.

[rawhod]

https://droid4x.en.uptodown.com/windows

[janclaes47]

Not familiar with dual boot, but may be worth taking a look at these.

 

https://www.lifewire.com/create-android-usb-drive-2202053

 

https://www.lifewire.com/create-android-usb-drive-2202053

 

 

[WorriedNoodle]

1 hour ago, rawhod said:

https://droid4x.en.uptodown.com/windows

Failed to install on my Win10 64 and then I was given 3 malware reports. Piece of junk imho.

[rawhod]

Cleanly installed on my Win 8.1 64 no malware. Excellent  Android emulator IMHO.