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BlueStacks is a popular and free emulator that allows you to run Android apps on a PC or Mac computer.
For Windows, BlueStacks App Player has minimum requirements of Windows 7 or above, 4 GB of RAM, 10 GB of disk space, and an Intel or AMD processor. BlueStacks Air currently supports Mac systems using Apple Silicon chips . For macOS, minimum requirements include macOS 11 or higher Operating System, 8 GB RAM, and 12 GB disk space.
Apps wanting to access files or folders outside that on the SD card, are required to use Android's own system file selector. [14] Due to this limitation, guest OSes running on, emulation, platform virtualization, or compatibility apps are no longer allowed to access files outside of their own SD card Sandbox.
Some VM/emulator apps have a fixed set of OS's or applications that can be supported. Since Android 8 and later versions of Android, some of these apps have been reporting issues as Google has heightened the security of file-access permissions on newer versions of Android. Some apps have difficulties or have lost access to SD card.
At the Windows 11 event today, Microsoft announced Android apps will work in the next OS.
Prism is a Microsoft emulator for ARM-powered Windows devices that translates the underlying code of software built for traditional x86 and x64 binaries from Windows 11 24H2 [4] ACL allows Android apps to natively execute on Tizen, webOS, or MeeGoo phones. [5] [6] [7] Alien Dalvik allows Android apps to run on MeeGo [8] and Meamo. [9]
Using the Android emulator that is part of the Android SDK, or third-party emulators, Android can also run non-natively on x86 architectures. [ 159 ] [ 160 ] Chinese companies are building a PC and mobile operating system, based on Android, to "compete directly with Microsoft Windows and Google Android". [ 161 ]
RetroArch's version 1.0.0.0 was released on January 11, 2014, and at the time was available on seven distinct platforms. [ 12 ] On February 16, 2016, RetroArch became one of the first ever applications to implement support for the Vulkan graphics API, having done so on the same day of the API's official release day.