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Old January 4th 18, 12:20 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default What free Android emulator do YOU use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs?

In alt.comp.os.windows-10 Joe Scotch wrote:
/nIn news wrote:


I have tried Bluestack a few years ago. It worked more or less OK. But
it was running something in the background from time to time using 25%
CPU even when no APK was running. Did not like that, so I removed it.


Thanks for helping out on the on-topic question at hand whose answers will
benefit all Windows users if they also want to have Android apps.


It looks like the top three Android emulation choices might be.


1. First just try to get an Android VM working
2. If that fails, try Nox or BlueStack
3. If those fail (they probably won't) - then try the rest in turn.


Thanks for the advice because the most expensive part of freeware is
testing all of them just to find the ones that work best.


In 2016, I did this too. I don't remember using Nox. I couldn't get
Android VM to work well in both VirtualBox and VMware Workstation.
BlueStack was the best one that worked for me.
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