Android Emulators

Name	Free	OS	Hyper-v Compat on Win	ARM-only App Support	Development
GenyMotion^[1]	Limited	Windows, macOS, Linux	Partial	Limited	Active
BlueStacks^[2]	Yes	Windows, macOS (M chip)	No	Yes	Active
LDPlayer^[3]	Yes	Windows	No	Yes	Active
xDroid^[4]	Limited	Linux	NA	Limited	Slow
MuMu App Player^[5]	Yes	macOS (M chip)	No	Yes	Active
腾讯手游助手	Yes	Windows	No	Yes	Active
Waydroid^[6]	Yes	Linux	NA	Yes	Slow
AnBox Cloud^[7]	Limited	Ubuntu	NA	?	Active
Smartphone Simulator (Chrome extension)^[8]	Limited	Windows, macOS, Linux	NA	?	Active
Android-x86 + VM^[9]	Yes	Windows, macOS, Linux	Yes	Limited	Inactive
Android SDK + Android Studio^[10]	Yes	Windows, macOS, Linux	?	Yes	Active
docker-android^[11]	Yes	Windows, macOS, Linux	Yes	Limited	Active

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Footnotes¶

GenyMotion works well.
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BlueStacks works well.
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LDPlayer is also called 雷电模拟器 in Chinese. It works well.
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xDroid can run but has various issues.
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MuMu App Player works well. Specially, Tribal Pioneer works on MuMu App Player on macOS.
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Waydroid is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on Linux. It is a successor of AnBox.
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AnBox Cloud is developed by Canonical and works on Ubuntu only.
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Smartphone Simulator (Chrome extension) is a Chrome extension.
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Android X86 provides ISO images and RPM files for Fedora Linux distributions. ISO images can be used with VM tools (such as KVM, VirtualBox, VMware, etc) just like you can other operating systems in virtual machines. It’s currently inactive and ISO images are outdated.
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Android SDK and Android Studio works together to emulate software found on Android using the resources of your PC. Android developers mostly use Android SDK tools for testing and development purposes, but it’ll work for casual use and play as well.
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Docker-Android is a docker image built to be used for everything related to mobile website testing and Android project.
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