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Compatibility layers and Android Linux distros tables added
;Before diving in,
;*[[Hypervisors|Hardware-assisted virtualization]] feature must be turned from your BIOS for most of these methods due to performance reasons.
;*You need to turn off Hyper-V from Windows Feature panel if [[Hypervisors|Type-2 hypervisor]] used by the emulator due to [[Hypervisors#Hyper-V_feature_conflict_issue|conflict issue]]. Having said that some emulators like BlueStacks provide special Hyper-V build for prevent this issue. Recently, with [https://support.bluestacks.com/hc/en-us/articles/22561951043981-BlueStacks-5-20-Release-Notes#01HMGBJDK8G7J7S9C0G5R9SBVR BlueStacks 5 version 5.20, you can now run BlueStacks with Hyper-V enabled] including all instances such as Nougat 32-bit, which will run as intended and no additional changes required. ;*There are also [[compatibility layers]] such as Waydroid and [[Anbox]] for running android applications on ARM and x86 devices but these projects kinda negligible due to their compatibility levels.
;*Tons of bloated, obsolete or non-active other Android "emulators" exists there but we're not gonna list them, see [https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php?title=Android_emulators&diff=66635&oldid=66634#Emulators this page] for that.
;*If you already have an Android device, we recommend using a mirroring application like "[https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy scrcpy]" instead of these "emulators".
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
! colspan="10"|PC / x86
|-
|[[Genymotion]]
|}
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==Compatibility layers ([[Compatibility_layers|...]])==
''These compatibility layers designed for running android applications on ARM and x86 devices but these projects kinda negligible due to their compatibility levels''.
<div style="overflow-x:auto;width:100%">
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;width:100%"
|-
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
! scope="col"|Version
! scope="col"|[[#Hardware_features|Hardware features]]
! scope="col"|[[#Enhancements|Enhancements]]
! scope="col"|Compatibility
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
! colspan="10"|x86
|-
|[https://waydro.id/index.html WayDroid]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://waydro.id/#install git]<br />[https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script Extras script]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|?
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|-
|[[Anbox]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://docs.anbox.io/userguide/install.html git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|?
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|}
==Android Linux distros ([[Recommended_Linux_distros#Android|...]])==
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;width:100%"
|-
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Architecture
! scope="col"|Frontend
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|[[#Hardware_features|Hardware features]]
! scope="col"|[[#Enhancements|Enhancements]]
! scope="col"|Compatibility
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
! colspan="10"|x86
|-
|BlissOS
|x86
|Android-x86 fork<br/><small>includes 3 launchers: Taskbar, Quickstep and Smart Dock.</small>
|[https://blissos.org/index.html#download 16.9.x]
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|?
|{{?}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|-
|Berry OS
|x86
|Based on Android-x86 and Bliss OS<br/><small>Mini Desktop launcher is pre-installed.</small>
|[https://github.com/yui0/berry-os/releases 2023-02-22]
|{{?}}
|{{?}}
|?
|{{?}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|-
|Android-x86
|x86
|Trebuchet (KitKat version)
|[https://www.android-x86.org 2022-03-25]
|{{~}}
|{{~}}
|?
|{{✓}} ||{{~}}<abbr title="Development activity on Android-x86 has significantly slowed down.">*</abbr> ||{{✗}}
|}
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