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|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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|TianTian App Player
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[http://www.ttmnq.com/en/ 3.2.8]
|VirtualBox
|Mid
|-
!colspan="8"|Consoles
|-
|LineageOS
|align=left|{{Icon|Switch}}
|[https://switchroot.org/ 15.1]
|based of the Nvidia Shield TV build of LineageOS
|~
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
VMOS
:''This page is about emulating Android on other computers, like desktops. For emulating specific platformsthe inverse, we'll usually list Android ports of emulators see [[Emulators on the target platform's page; for example, a Game Boy emulator for Android would be listed at the Game Boy emulators page]].''{{Infobox console|title = Android|logo = Android.png|developer = Google<br/> Open Handset Alliance|release = 2008|emulated = {{✓}}}}
'''[[wikipedia:Android (operating system)|Android]]''' is a mobile operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. It was originally developed in secret before launching in 2008 as a competitor against Apple's [[iOS emulators|iPhone]]. While other mobile operating systems had been made throughout the years, none have emerged in terms of market share nearly as much as Android.
Android is like a Linux distribution in that it uses the Linux kernel to facilitate communication with the hardware and manage processes on the system. Unfortunately, the similarities end there as Android uses an entirely different toolset from standard Linux distributions and no support is given for running it on PCs. (Software development on Android is also nothing like Linux development as apps are compiled into architecture-specific <code>APK</code>s via Java which, like IPA files on [[iOS emulators|iOS]], are specially designed Zip files. They may be occasionally coupled with <code>OBB</code> files).) While Android can technically run Linux binaries, doing so requires superuser privileges that Android does not provide by default. For many devices, you can expect to see a custom ROM that has an integrated su binary (or a means to install it easily, such as a custom recovery) but not all devices have one.
However, the Linux kernel is flexible enough that it can be emulated well unlike iOS, older cell-phone models, and older Japanese Galapagos mobile phones. While Android natively supports mice,<ref group=N>If you have an Android device you can confirm this by connecting a Bluetooth mouse or a USB mouse via a USB On-the-Go adapter.</ref> , most apps expect users to have a touchscreen, so Android emulators will usually default to emulating touchscreen presses like [[Nintendo DS emulators|DS emulation]] (though it can be less than ideal in many cases). The host's keyboard may often emulate the button controller add-ons, and some emulators support [[Xbox 360 emulators|Xbox 360]] controllers as well with some more tweaks.
==Emulators==
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'''Important Note:''' These emulators are usually closed source and while they're distributed for free, their devs look for roundabout ways to monetize them. One such high profile case was BlueStacks. Make sure to check if there are pre-installed apps on your emulator (and disable them), monitor your Internet connection download caps and processor activity to detect any abnormal activity (and block domains accordingly if the need arises) and avoid as much as possible giving sensitive account data (just in case it's key-logged). Besides basic safety, these precautions often make impacted emulators run much faster when the adware services and apps are turned off. Windows subsystem for Android is an exception, as Microsoft made it and monetizing comes from the Windows copy you brought.
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! scope="col"|VM
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-SourceSoftware">FLOSS</abbr>
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|High
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|[[Windows Subsystem for Android]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}} (11 and up, windows 10 unofficially)
|Comes with Windows store
|Hyper-V
|?
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
|-
|MEmu
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://www.memuplay.com/ 7.2.5{{MEmuVer}}]
|VirtualBox
|High
|LDPlayer
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://en.ldplayer.net/ 4.0.3650.3]
|VirtualBox
|High
|NoxPlayer
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://www.bignox.com/ 67.60.12.23000]
|VirtualBox
|High
|[[Anbox]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}
|[https://anbox.io/ Gitgit]
|Not an emulator (wine-like approach)
|~
|Android x86
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://www.android-x86.org 98.01-r2r6]
|VirtualBox, VMWare (for 3d acc)
|Mid
|VmWare
|High
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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|Mid
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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!colspan="8"|Mobile / ARM
|LineageOS
|align=left|{{Icon|LinuxARM}}
|[https://konstakang.com/ 1618.0 1 <small>(Raspberry Pi 3/4)</small>]
|Not an emulator (actual AOSP)
|High
|[[Anbox]]
|align=left|{{Icon|LinuxARM}}
|[https://anbox.io/ Gitgit]
|Not an emulator (wine-like approach)
|~
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|-
|VMOS
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://www.vmos.com/ website]
|?
|Mid
|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|Project Astoria
|align=left|{{Icon|WinMobileWin10Phone}}
|Discontinued ($)
|Original
|Low
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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!colspan="8"|Consoles
|-
|LineageOS
|align=left|{{Icon|Switch}}
|[https://switchroot.org/ 15.1]
|based of the Nvidia Shield TV build of LineageOS
|~
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|}
;Xamarin Android Player
:A newcomer to the Android emulation market. Not much is known about this because it required a minimum of $25/month subscription of main Xamarin products. The main Xamarin products were [https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all made available for free] after the purchase by Microsoft, but Xamarin Android Player was discontinued.
;VMOS
:A program that runs another copy of Android on the current Android system, which would be useful for running multiple copies of the same application simutaniously, running applications that rely on older/newer versions of Android system, testing out different Android system variations, or safely executing operations/applications that's likely to do harm to current system/user data.
;Project Astoria
Pass in a kernel option to grub when booting. Select the boot entry and then press 'e' to edit it, and then 'e' to edit again. Add the kernel option here. For example, to use a video resolution of 1920x1080, add 'video=1920x1080'. Press return to save the changes (for this boot session only), and 'b' to boot (the keys to edit and boot may be different depending on your grub version, there are usually instructions on the grub screen for the requisite keys)
==Android consoles==
Because it's possible to fork and created you're own Android-based OS, many developers have used Android to power their own commercial console. However, as mentioned before, just because it uses Android as a base does not mean they will all work properly on a normal Android emulator.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|[[MAME]] support
! scope="col"|ROMs
! scope="col"|Description
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|Amazon Fire TV
|None
|None
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|-
|Atlantis Land Kora
|None
|None
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|Baidu Shadow Stick
|None
|None
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|Diyomate X18
|None
|None
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|-
|flarePlay
|None
|None
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|-
|GPD Mars Gamebox
|None
|None
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|-
|[[GPD XD Devices|GPD XD / XD+]]
|None
|None
|
|-
|LC Smart Pandora TV Box
|None
|None
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|-
|Lexibook LexiBox TV
|None
|None
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|Lexibook Playdroid
|None
|None
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|Mad Catz Mojo
|None
|None
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|MeLE X8
|None
|None
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|Nexus Player
|None
|None
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|Nvidia Shield TV
|None
|None
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|-
|[[Ouya emulators|Ouya]]
|None
|[https://archive.org/details/ouyalibrary?&sort=-downloads&page=2 Yes]
|A failed microconsole that started from a Kickstarter project. The controller sucks and the games can be found elsewhere. Since the Ouya runs on Android, emulation is technically possible by extracting menu/application apk files and running them in an Android emulator or VM.
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|PlayJam GameStick
|None
|None
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|Razer Forge TV
|None
|None
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|Skyworth miniStation
|None
|None
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|Snail Games OBox
|None
|None
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|Soomax Sensory
(享动体感游戏机)
|None
|None
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|TCL T2
|None
|None
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|UIS Xtreamer Multi-Console
|None
|None
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|UTStarcom DanDan (蛋蛋)
|None
|None
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|ZTE FunBox
|None
|None
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|}
==See also==
*[[Cellphone emulators]] - info on emulators for various feature phone/non-smartphone platforms.*https://www.luckypatchers.com/ [[Emulators on Android OS]] - Lucky Patcher APK's latest versionVarious emulators for Android platform [[Category:ConsolesMobiles]][[Category:Android emulators|*]]
==Notes==
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