Hey there, I’ve been using Bluestacks as my main android emulator for a while, but I disliked how bloated it is, especially that their cloud service app comes preinstalled.
Im wondering if there are other android emulators that are good to use. I’ve already heard about emulators such as:
It's not hard to make WSA to accept every apk you want qith Google Services etc. There are many guides online, @me if you can't find one that works for you
They’ve been advertising it recently. But for whatever reason, they are using Homescapes and Gardenscapes in their main brunt of advertising so idk why those two lightweight games.
I use the MSI App Player (pretty sure that’s the name). I think it is built off Blue Stacks and it has some bloat still, nothing that isn’t too manageable but I’ll like to see other people’s opinions.
Waydroid works quite well for me, but it’s Linux+Wayland only.
I think you should be able to install the Play Store and Play Services on Windows Android Subsystem, there’s probably guides on how to do that but I’ve never tried myself. I think it uses Windows Subsystem for Linux in under the hood so I imagine it’s probably possible to root it/install additional stuff to it.
waydroid looks great! though I am a windows user :(
I’ve actually tried installing play store alongside Windows Android Subsystem before via MagiskOnWSALocal. It works quite well actually and root is enabled with Magisk. It was a bit of a hassle for me when installing though since Windows Subsystem for Linux and the other steps are required for installation. Though im not sure if there are easier methods now
Once you’ve got wsl installed you only have to copy and paste a few commands to start running the run.sh script
You can install debian from the windows store if I recall correctly
though if you want to install it in a different location you’ll need to install manually with commands or move the installed files of debian wsl to a new location and use mklink in command prompt to create a link of those files to the original location you moved them from (don’t rename folders and make sure you move and link the top level folder containing the debian files)
Once it runs it absolutely slaps though! I’m not sure why it’s wayland-only, it still just runs in a window anyway. Nothing seems to really require Wayland there.
But of everything, the performance is impressive, as it’s just a container. Makes for a sick tablet on the 2-in-1 netbooks.
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