Often there are certain Android apps that you would want to run on your PC, but how can you do so, and why would you want that? Well, generally, your PC has more excellent hardware than your smartphone, so if you run Android on PC, you can play the big title games without any lags and delays.
Even more, while developing an app for Android, Devs will require testing the app and debugging it to run the Android apps on your PC during the development process. We can use the emulator's applications; however, you can also mirror your Android phone to your PC. This article will describe and mention a few emulators to run Android on PC and use your Android phone with your PC.
BlueStacks
Bluestacks is the most popular Android emulator for windows and mac since its release. The emulator heavily focuses on gamers, so it is packed with many features like screenshots, Eco Mode, and much more. If you need to run Android on PC to run Android games, then BlueStacks is your best bet. You can also do keymapping to set customized keyboard shortcuts for a specific game.
Moreover, you can customize the color scheme of Bluestacks to change its vibe; customing your cursor in the blue stack is also an option. With the Bluestack instance Manager, you can launch multiple Bustacks instances with different hardware configurations. Thus, you can run several games at once using the BlueStacks emulator.
Not only that, if you are using a low spec PC, then Blustack has an Eco Mode to save resources on your devices while running an app in Bluestack. Bluestacks 5 runs the latest version of Android 10, which is the latest free version available to download at their official site.
LD Player Emulator
A lightweight emulator for Windows devices, the LD Player emulator runs on Android Nougat 7. Despite being lightweight, it focuses on user game experience. Thus, LD PLayer is packed with gaming-related features such as keymapping tools, screenshot tools, and multi-instance managers to run multiple Android emulators with different configurations at once.
It also provides FPS and graphic support. Thus users can check their FPS during gameplay and resource consumption during gameplay. Thousands of games support LD Players and the most popular apps like Tik Tok, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Netflix.
Using Android Studio Emulator Feature
Android studio is the default Integrated Development Environment for developing android apps and android ROMs. Many tools come with Android studio for developers, such as debugging, run code, and much more, thus making creating games and apps for Android painless.
However, you can also use an Android emulator to run Android on PC. Android Studio comes with a built-in emulator running the latest relevant version of Android to test your Android apps. You can also change the Android ROM and run the emulator independently of the Android Studio IDE. However, the process is quite text-heavy and complicated, so this way of running Android on your PC won't appeal to too many people.
But having an Android Emulator along with the Android IDE gives users much more power and control over the Android you are running on your PC than the other Android Emulators app for PC can provide.
Install BlissOS
BlissOS is an operating system that runs Android customized to be compatible with PC's hardware. You can run any Android game and apps in BlissOS using the full specs of your PC.
At this point, it would be a bit odd to say that BlissOS is an Emulator since you have to wipe the existing OS to install BlissOS, or you have to do a partition and o multi-boot. However, multi-boot will degrade your experience with BlissOS.
You can also use BlissOS on your existing OS via a virtual machine such as VMware or Virtual Box. However, to install BlissOS on your PC, you will have to download the BlissOS iso image file from their official website, then download another software that can flash iso files onto the USB sticks, such as etcher or Rufus.
Flash the BlissOS image to the USB using either of these software and turn off your PC, insert the flashed USB, power on, press the keyboard shortcut to bring the Boot menu, for example, the Esc Key or the F12 key on your Keyboard. Select the USB, boot into it from the menu, and follow the wizard to install BlissOS.
Install Windows 11
Though Windows 11 is not officially launched, those subscribed to Windows Insider Preview program can update their Windows 10 to Windows 11 for free. So if you are opt-in to Windows Insider Preview, open up windows Settings, go to Update & Security and click on the Update button to update Windows 10 to Windows 11.
Windows will automatically reboot and will boot into Windows11. Since Windows 11 can run Android on PC natively, you don't remove any android emulator third-party application to install on your PC. It is unclear that you can play all the android games or not. However, we know that you can run almost all the popular apps, such as Tik Tok, Instagram, and much more.
However, you can only install apps from the Microsoft Store, which pulls apps from the Amazon store. Still, Microsoft has stated that in further versions of Windows 11, users can install APK files or use other Android app stores to install the Android app natively on your Windows 11 PC. Since the apps will run natively on Windows according to your PC's specs, you will have a smooth experience.
Mirror Android Display onto your Windows PC
Windows 10 comes with the in-built app Windows Your Phone, which gives users the ability to get Android on PC. You don't have to get any third-party app on your PC. However, on your Android device, you need to get the Microsoft phone app, open up the app both on your Android phone and on your PC.
Pair both of the devices, and now you can control your phone, notification, messages from your PC. Also, you can view your phone gallery. Lastly, you can mirror your Android screen onto your PC.
