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|style="text-align:center;"|[[ARC Welder]] (Google Chrome)
|style="text-align:center;"|Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS
|style="text-align:center;"|[https://developer.chrome.com/apps/getstarted_arc 4850.5021.575602.0] (Official Site)
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* '''DuOS''', not to be confused with a [http://ds-duos.blogspot.com/ similarly-named Nintendo DS emulator] by Roor, is a relative newcomer to the Android emulation market, made by American Megatrends i.e. the very same people behind the BIOS/UEFI firmware your PC may be using. Emulation is modest at best, with games and apps such as [[DraStic]] struggling on lower-end hardware. And to top it all off, it ain't free either.
* Recently, '''Google Chrome''' can open apk files toousing the ARC Welder extension, though their emulation on PC is average at best. Here's a [http://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iIbxaftAu_ho5rv9fUlXSLTzwU6MbKOldsWXyrYiyo8/edit#gid=0 compatibility list] and a [https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeapks dedicated subreddit]. Google has announced [http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/the-play-store-comes-to-chrome-os-but-not-the-way-we-were-expecting/ Play Store for Chrome OS], but it works on a different "container" technology that is embed to the Chrome OS so the future of ARC Welder for PC is uncertain.
* '''Xamarin Android Player''' is also 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. Although the main Xamarin products are [https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all now available for free], it is currently not announced whether Xamarin Android Player will become free or not.
