Emulators on Android: Difference between revisions

: This page is about emulators that run on Android.

 

'''Android''' is a mobile operating system developed by Google and Open Handset Alliance. It was unveiled in November 2007, with the first commercial Android device launched in September 2008 by HTC. It was written in Java (UI), C (core), C++, and others. It supports 64-bit & 32-bit (32-bit only apps being dropped in 2021), ARM, X86 & X86-64, and there is unofficial RISC-V support.

|Arctic Fox

|Bumblebee

|Chipmunk

|Dolphin

|Electric Eel

|Flamingo

|Giraffe

|Hedgehog

|Iguana

|Jellyfish

|Koala

|Atom

|Bender Bending Rodríguez

|Cupcake

|Doughnut

| rowspan="3" |Éclair

|Frozen Yogurt

| rowspan="2" |Gingerbread

| rowspan="3" |Honeycomb

| rowspan="2" |Ice Cream Sandwich

| rowspan="3" |Jelly Bean

| rowspan="2" |Kit Kat

| rowspan="2" |Lollipop

|Marshmallow

| rowspan="2" |Nougat

| rowspan="2" |Oreo

|Pie

|Queen Cake

|Red Velvet Cake

| rowspan="2" |Snow Cone

|Tiramisu

|Upside-Down Cake

|Vanilla Ice Cream

|Baklava

|Cinnamon Bun

![[Recommended emulators|Recommended? (overall)]]

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/google.11976/ Google]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/nothing.12583/ Nothing]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/motorola.11990/ Motorola]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|web||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/oneplus.11993/ OnePlus]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}} (ColorOS)

|code||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/sony.12026/ Sony Xperia] (Global)||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|web||{{~}}

|Xiaomi, Redmi (Global) & Poco||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|app||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/zte.12034/ ZTE] & [https://xdaforums.com/c/nubia.12011/ Nubia]||{{Ya}}||{{~}}

|code||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/htc.12038/ HTC]||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|web||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/lg.12042/ LG]||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|web||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/nokia.12020/ Nokia]||{{Na}}||{{Ya}} (HMD)

|code||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/samsung.11975/ Samsung] (One UI 7 and earlier)||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|button||{{Ya}}

|Asus||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Huawei||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Oppo||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Samsung (One UI 8 and later)||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Sharp||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Sony Xperia (Japan)||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Vivo||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Xiaomi & Redmi (China)||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|23.2||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|12.7||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|Uvite||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|20||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}  

|2026030700||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|2023.2||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|3||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|14||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|8.7.1||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|Pie||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}  

|14.1||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}  

|7||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|6||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

!Download links

|[https://github.com/TeamWin/android_bootable_recovery git]

|[https://gitlab.com/OrangeFox/misc/appdev/app git]

|[https://skyhawkrecovery.github.io Sky Hawk Recovery Project] (SHRP)

| ||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

| ||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

!Download links

|[https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk git]

|[https://github.com/ChainsDD/Superuser git]

|[https://github.com/tiann/KernelSU git]

!Download links

|[https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps git]

| ||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid git]

|[https://github.com/BiTGApps/BiTGApps-Release/ git]

|[https://github.com/nikgapps/nikgapps.github.io git]

|||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

!Active?

![[Recommended emulators|Recommended? (overall)]]

|9.8||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jmz.soft.twrpmanager

|1.9.2||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|1.3.0.0||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.apps.rom.installer

|0.73||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.flash

|3.0||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=balti.migrate.flasher

![[Recommended emulators|Recommended? (overall)]]

! colspan="6" |[[MAME]]

|1.16.9||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seleuco.mame4droid

|1.5.3||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seleuco.mame4all

|1.1.7||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://github.com/mamedev/roadmap#mobile roadmap]||{{Ya}}||{{TBD}}

|[https://github.com/mamedev/mame source only]

! colspan="6" |[[libretro]]

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/neil4/RetroArch-Lite git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.portableandroid.classicboyLite 6.4.4] (Lite)

[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.portableandroid.classicboy 6.8.0] (Pro)

|{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chg.retrogamecenter 2.5.3]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rgh.retrogameworld 2.5.2]||{{~}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

! colspan="6" |[[Mednafen]]

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

! colspan="6" |AmiArcadia

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

! colspan="6" |Others

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.markspace.retro 1.0.0.448]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emulator.box.aio 3.2.0]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|[https://matsu-player.en.uptodown.com/android 4.13.0]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://appvn.com/android/jrioni-arcade-full-version/3-2-0/detail?id=com.jrioni.jarcade 3.2.0]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xiaoji001.app 1.8.3]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}} (stolen emulators)||{{Na}}

|

![[Recommended emulators|Recommended? (overall)]]

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bruenor.magicbox 1.0.96]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|

|[https://virtualmachinery.weebly.com/limbo-downloads.html 6.0.1]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{~}}

|-

|[[Bochs]]

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zone.dos.app 2.1.5]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xls.screencapture 22.06.15]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://apkcombo.com/ldosbox/lb.myapp.ldosbox/download/apk 2.0]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|-

|[[DOSBox|aDOSBox]]

|[https://adosbox.en.uptodown.com/android 0.2.5]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.locnet.dosbox 1.2.8]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishstix.dosbox 2.2.0]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishstix.dosboxfree 2.1.21]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://apkcombo.app/dosbox4sk/name.atkio.dev.android.dosbox/download/apk 0.0.5]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://apkpure.com/gdosbox-dosbox-for-android/org.gemesys.android.dosbox 0.7.5.5]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.litchie.aemula4droid 2.2]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://superfury.itch.io/unipcemu 1.0]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://apkpure.com/lbochs-pc-emulator/lb.myapp.lbochs 2.1]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|-

|SPC/AT Emulator

|[https://sites.google.com/site/wadimspc/spc-emulator-for-android 150513]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

| - '''Linux Distribution'''

- '''Windows Supported'''

- '''macOS Supported'''

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.limelight 10.8.4] (NVIDIA-Only)

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.rdc.android 8.1.81.435]||{{Ya}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.rdc.androidx 10.0.14.1182]||{{Ya}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.chromeremotedesktop 79.0.3945.26]||{{Ya}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sentio.desktop 1.7.6]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cloud.heraldic.mea 2.3]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://www.cloudcat.ai x.x]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ld.cph.gl 2.8.4]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microxen.aladin 1.0.4]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.redfinger.global 1.8.8.3]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://www.Appetize.io x.x]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://android-apk.org/com.cocav.tiemu/41428025-com-cocav-tiemu 1.4.5]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.letui.cphone&gl=US 2.0.1]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|[http://www.putaogame.com/index-en.html 5.8.0]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://anbox-cloud.io] ($)||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dandroidmobile.androlinux 1.3.5.3]||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{~}}

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Dunno}}||{{~}}

|[https://github.com/nathaneltitane/dextop git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Dunno}}||{{~}}

|[https://github.com/infinyte7/Manjaro-Linux-on-Android git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|[https://github.com/WMCB-Tech/debdroid-ng git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Dunno}}||{{~}}

|{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|[https://apkpure.com/gnu-linux-advance-free/com.appssecru.gnulinuxfree 2.0]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid 3.0 Beta]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|[https://f-droid.org/packages/org.dyndns.sven_ola.debian_kit 1.6.0]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|[https://ae.amigalife.org/index.php?topic=476.0 041113]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://github.com/MFDGaming/ubuntu-in-termux git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/MasterDevX/Termux-Kali git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/YadominJinta/atilo#readme git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/MasterDevX/Termux-Kali git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/Hax4us/TermuxAlpine git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/nmilosev/termux-fedora git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/MasterDevX/Termux-Kali git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/Hax4us/Nethunter-In-Termux git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/Neo-Oli/termux-ubuntu git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/sdrausty/TermuxArch git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/adi1090x/termux-desktop git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/htr-tech/ubuntu git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/t184256/nix-on-droid git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/MiKl-LS/termux-debian git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator/releases {{WinlatorVer}}]||{{Ya}}||{{~}}||{{WIP-Box}}

|[https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/android 7.0]||{{~}}||{{Ya}}||{{WIP-Box}}

|[https://github.com/KreitinnSoftware/MiceWine-Application/releases {{MiceWineVer}}]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{WIP-Box}}

|[https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}<small>(WIP)</small>

|[https://github.com/Grima04/Win32droid git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}<small>(WIP)</small>

|[https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=804309 ExaGear] (based on Wine 6.0)

|{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

* [[Wrappers#90's APIs|90's APIs]]

* [[Wrappers#2000's and later APIs|2000's and later APIs]]