How to Run Android on your PC

June 22, 2014 Posted by WithU Technologies , ,


3 Best Ways to Run Android on Your PC






1. Bluestacks

Your favorite mobile apps on PC, MAC and TV  is the tagline
of the official website of Bluestacks.

Yes, you heard it right that now you can run all your android application in your current PC with any operating system you have.


BlueStacks is currently the best way to run Android apps on Windows. It doesn’t replace your entire operating system. Instead, it runs Android apps within a window on your Windows desktop. This allows you to use Android apps just like any other program such as Temple Run, Subway surfers, and even the high end android games and android apps. BlueStacks also includes support for easy installation of apps from Google Play and you can also install other android markets such as 1mobilemarket, so the process is as seamless as possible. Even better, BlueStacks runs Android apps and games with surprisingly good performance.




Download Bluestacks: Bluestacks






2.  Official Android Emulator

The Android SDK includes a virtual mobile device emulator that runs on your computer. The emulator lets you prototype, develop and test Android applications without using a physical device.

The Android emulator mimics all of the hardware and software features of a typical mobile device, except that it cannot place actual phone calls. It provides a variety of navigation and control keys, which you can "press" using your mouse or keyboard to generate events for your application. It also provides a screen in which your application is displayed, together with any other active Android applications.


To let you model and test your application more easily, the emulator utilizes Android Virtual Device (AVD) configurations. AVDs let you define certain hardware aspects of your emulated phone and allow you to create many configurations to test many Android platforms and hardware permutations. Once your application is running on the emulator, it can use the services of the Android platform to invoke other applications, access the network, play audio and video, store and retrieve data, notify the user, and render graphical transitions and themes.



The Android emulator supports many hardware features likely to be found on mobile devices, including:


  • An ARMv5 CPU and the corresponding memory-management unit (MMU)

  • A 16-bit LCD display

  • One or more keyboards (a Qwerty-based keyboard and associated Dpad/Phone buttons)

  • A sound chip with output and input capabilities

  • Flash memory partitions (emulated through disk image files on the development machine)

  • A GSM modem, including a simulated SIM Card

  • A camera, using a webcam connected to your development computer.

  • Sensors like an accelerometer, using data from a USB-connected Android device.

Unfortunately, the official Android emulator is rather slow and isn’t a good option for everyday use. It’s useful if you want to test apps or play with the latest version of Android, but you wouldn’t want to actually use apps or play games in it.

To get started with the Android Emulator, download Google’s Android SDK, open the SDK Manager program, and select Tools > Manage AVDs. Click the New button and create a an Android Virtual Device (AVD) with your desired configuration, then select it and click the Start button to launch it.


Download Android emulator: Android SDK



3.Android-x86

Android-x86 is a community project to port Android to the x86 platform so it can run natively on Intel and AMD processors, allowing you to install Android on a laptop or tablet just as you’d install Windows or Linux. This project was originally noteworthy for providing a way to run Android on low-power netbooks, giving those old netbooks some additional life.

Bear in mind that this project isn’t stable. You should exercise extreme caution when installing it on physical hardware.





The New Version of Android kitkat is released .


Android-x86 Summary

Distribution

Android-x86

Home Page


Mailing Lists


Documentation


Screenshots


Download Mirrors


Bug Tracker


If you really want to run Android apps on your Windows computer without depending on and external operating system emulator, you should install BlueStacks. It’s the easiest option which you have, it doesn't have any special requirement.