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For a 2018 paper on Android app privacy, security researchers from Nagoya University used MicroG to bypass Google's SafetyNet security mechanism on an Android Marshmallow emulator. The researchers altered Android's package manager and implemented signature spoofing to enable MicroG on the emulator.
On December 9, 2021, at The Game Awards, Google announced that Google Play Games beta would launch in early 2022, bringing Android games to Windows PCs and laptops. [10] The minimum specification requirements to run Google Play Games are currently Windows 10 or later operating system with an integrated graphics card and quad-core CPU that can access Google Play Games beta (previously octo-core ...
MicroEmulator has official support for the Android platform. [29] It is also possible to convert J2ME MIDlet JAR-packages into standalone APK files. [30] J2ME Loader — is an enhanced fork of MicroEmulator for Android. [31] [32] JL-Mod — is an enhaced fork of J2ME Loader with the Mascot Capsule 3D API support. [33] [34]
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]
In January 2018, BlueStacks announced the release of the BlueStacks + N Beta, running on Android 7 (Android Nougat).This was notable as most Android emulators were running Android 4.4 (KitKat) at that time. [20] This version was powered by an upgraded "HyperG" graphics engine that enabled the use of the full array of Android 7 APIs.
Android phones, like this Nexus S running Replicant, allow installation of apps from the Play Store, F-Droid store or directly via APK files. This is a list of notable applications ( apps ) that run on the Android platform which meet guidelines for free software and open-source software .
Google Mobile Services (GMS) is a collection of proprietary applications and application programming interfaces services from Google that are typically pre-installed on the majority of Android devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs.
Android's method to install APK files on a device has been used as a way to sideload unofficial apps onto Windows Subsystem for Android [7] and Chrome OS's Android virtual machine. [8] Shizuku allows an Android phone to connect to its own ADB when connected to a wireless network. The application is available for free on the Google Play Store. [9]