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What free Android emulator do YOU use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs?
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Not me. The only thing that matters is the ability to transfer files between various devices and my PC. This is trivial to transfer files over the local LAN from Android to Windows and vice versa. I've been doing it for years using zero software on Windows and just the one "FTP Server (Free)" open-source software on Android. Windows file explorer works fine, as does FileZilla or WinSCP freeware to transfer *anything* from or to Android and Windows over the LAN. You can even use rsync-like tools to sync your Android memory with your Windows hard disk. The idea of looking for an Android app that works on Windows sounds silly to me, considering the excess of Windows' apps that has existed for decades. VanguardLH kindly wrote up an extensive analysis of his Android tools with respect to their need on Windows, as did I in response. Other than the really free nice hourglass timers on Android, and the very easy to use free photo manipulation tools, Wi-Fi debuggers (particularly for laptops), Bluetooth OBD Scanners (for laptops), SMS/Visual Voicemail apps, police/fire scanners, and calculator widgets, I think most of the rest of the tools on my Android phone have better Windows counterparts. |
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What free Android emulator do YOU use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs?
On Mon, 1 Jan 2018 22:41:35 -0000 (UTC), Joe Scotch wrote:
He who is Joe Scotch said on Mon, 1 Jan 2018 21:29:18 -0000 (UTC): Is this the basic process? 1. Install & configure a virtual machine on the host OS 2. Download & save the Android ISO as the guest OS 3. Boot the Android ISO guest OS inside that virtual machine 4. Run the desired Android software inside that guest OS If it's that simple, then that is likely the best way to go. But if it's that simple - why do so many Android emulators even exist? Here is what I did with VMware Player 1. Download the Android X86 32-bit ISO file. 2. Configure a new virtual machine in VMware Player Installer ISO: set to the Android X86 ISO OS: "Other Linux 3.x kernel" (change; VMware wanted to default to BSD) 2GB RAM 32GB HDD 3. Start the new virtual machine, which then boots from the ISO as a virtual CD drive 4. The ISO asks if I want to (a) Run Android from the CD without installation (b) Install Android to the hard disk (virtual hard disk, that is). If I choose (a) to run from the CD, there is no permanent storage. Anything I download, any APKs I install, are gone when I next boot from the CD. 5. I choose (b) to install Android on the (virtual) HDD. 6. The ISO asks a few more questions * Do I want to install GRUB -- yes * How to format the file system -- ext4 7. The ISO then installs Android on the virtual HDD. 8. The ISO asks permission to reboot the VM. 9. I agree to reboot. 10. I disconnect the virtual CD to ensure that the VM boots from the virtual HDD and not from the "Live CD" ISO. FWIW here are a couple of articles about running Android-x86 in VMware. They are now a few years old and refer to older versions of Android, but they may be useful. * https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation...rkstation.html * http://xmodulo.com/how-to-install-an...re-player.html Here's what I tried first, but Windows 10 hung when I tried it. 1. Download, install & configure VirtualBox (mine was already configured). a. Find the latest stable version: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu...EST-STABLE.TXT (5.1.30) http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.30/ b. Download the latest stable ISO: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu...118389-Win.exe c. Download the latest stable guest additions: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu...ons_5.1.30.iso I don't know about VirtualBox, but VMware does not have guest additions for Android. The VMware guest additions for Linux do not install on Android. 2. Download the latest Android X86 32-bit ISO file (usually less than 1GB) https://www.fosshub.com/Android-x86....86-7.1-rc2.iso 3. Setting up the VirtualBox VM may be tricky - here's what I tried: Name: Android32b Type: Other Version: Other/Unknown Memory size: 64MB Your typical Android device today has 2GB or 3GB RAM, so that is what I would use for memory here. I expect 64MB is not enough for modern versions of Android. If you are running from "Live CD" (ISO) without installation, I believe it uses part of this virtual RAM to simulate storage. So you don't want to make this too small. Create a virtual hard disk now. VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) Dynamically allocated Virtual hard disk size: 2.00GB Your typical Android device today has 16GB or 32GB of storage, so that is what I would use for HDD size here. 2GB is probably not enough for the Android system. Start Select startup disk: android-x86-7.1-rc2.iso (681.00MB) Start Selection choice: Live CD - Run Android-X86 without installation == I chose this option That may be OK for an initial look-see. The catch with running without installation is that there is no permanent storage. Anything you download, any APKs you install, are gone when you next run Android from the Live CD (ISO). Live CD - VESA mode Live CD - Debug mode Installation - Install Android-X86 to harddisk The Windows-10 64-bit machine hung. I had to kill VirtualBox to get my Windows mouse back. Your virtual machine's RAM setting (64MB) looks way too low. Try 2GB or 3GB. If you still can't get it working, try one of the preconfigured VM images from osboxes.org. Everything else was fine on Windows when I killed VirtualBox. So, the Android ISO didn't work on the first pass. -- Kind regards Ralph |
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What free Android emulator do YOU use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs?
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This is a long post so I'll post separately the list of Android APKs I have stored on my phone (they're automatically created and stored and archived to Windows) where I think mainly the photo manipulators and calculators and sand timers and some of the wifi debuggers and police scanners may be better than those on Windows (along with New Pipe) - but not much else offhand. It might take me a while to go through this list of over 250 installed free apps on my Android phone where I'd have to see which apps are better than the Windows freeware counterparts. 1. Android has great free photo manipulators (easy to use) 2. Android has great calculator widgets 3. Android has great WiFi debuggers (particularly useful on laptops) 4. Android has great ECU scanners (although I use dealer software for that) 5. Android has great sand timers and alarm clocks 6. Android has great police & fire scanners (although web pages work too) That's about it offhand, but I haven't gone through the list below yet. Generally I only use the acknowledged best freeware, but I also experiment with dozens of programs every day so some of those in the list might not be the best possible out there. Nonetheless, here's the list of apps installed on my Android phone which I will look through to see which are better than what is on Windows. 321 Payer-my.bhul.video.player-1303-v1.3.3.apk 3C Toolbox-ccc71.at.free-19232-v1.9.2.3.apk AdAway-org.adaway-60-v3.2.apk Adobe Photoshop Sketch-com.adobe.creativeapps.sketch-20200001-v2.0.162.apk AFWall+--dev.ukanth.ufirewall-15902-v2.9.1.apk AirDroid-com.sand.airdroid-30203-v4.1.0.4.apk Alarm Klock-com.angrydoughnuts.android.alarmclock-15-v2.3.apk All-In-One Toolbox-imoblife.toolbox.full-150155-v7.2.4.apk All video player-com.sva.mediaplayer.hdvideoplayer-4-v4.0.apk Allo-com.google.android.apps.fireball-20070018-v8.0.035_RC09 (armeabi-v7a_xhdpi).apk Android Explorer-com.iamtrk.androidexplorer-1-v1.0.apk Androsens 2-com.tritop.androsense2-13-v1.93.apk AndSMB-lysesoft.andsmb-31-v3.4.apk Angulo-eu.domob.angulo-20000-v2.0.apk AnySoftKeyboard-com.menny.android.anysoftkeyboard-1726-v1.8.401.apk App Backup & 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I find the photo-manipulation software on Android incredibly easy to use compared to, say, The GIMP or Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, etc. Apples and oranges. There's no way any Android phone GUI can handle the breadth of surgical photo manipulation tasks that Photoshop is designed to handle. |
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I find the photo-manipulation software on Android incredibly easy to use compared to, say, The GIMP or Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, etc. Apples and oranges. There's no way any Android phone GUI can handle the breadth of surgical photo manipulation tasks that Photoshop is designed to handle. I think that's the whole point. Take my Hourglass APK as an example: Hourglass-com.alaskalinuxuser.hourglass-6-v1.6.apk For example, the Android "hourglass" app is fantastically simple. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alaskalinuxuser.hourglass Does something that powerfully simple app does exist for Windows? The power is in the UI. 1. You bring up the app 2. You slide the slider for the time 3. And that's it. Does something that simple exist on Windows for an hourglass timer? Same with the no-longer-free "Paper Artist" tool that I use on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dama.paperartistgp It's so ridiculously simple that I would love to see an equivalently simple and yet powerful Windows clone. 1. You bring up the photo in the app 2. You press a button which manipulates it 3. And the power is you "swish" your finger over it to modify beautifully Does something that powerfully simple even exist on Windows? |
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/nIn news
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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. |
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/nIn , Ralph Fox
wrote: Here is what I did with VMware Player FWIW here are a couple of articles about running Android-x86 in VMware. They are now a few years old and refer to older versions of Android, but they may be useful. * https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation...rkstation.html * http://xmodulo.com/how-to-install-an...re-player.html Thanks for that help on your VMWare settings. They seem echoed in the tutorials below that I will try next. How to install Android inside of VirtualBox in Windows https://www.howtogeek.com/164570/HOW...IN-VIRTUALBOX/ This is an Android 5.0 lollipop specific tutorial http://www.fixedbyvonnie.com/2015/03...albox-windows/ This is an Android 6.0 marshmallow specific tutorial http://www.tactig.com/install-androi...virtualbox-pc/ This is an Android 7.0 nougat specific tutorial http://www.wikigain.com/install-andr...on-virtualbox/ |
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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. -- Quote of the Week: "The world flatters the elephant and tramples on the ant." --Indian Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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/nIn news
Thanks for that help on your VMWare settings. They seem echoed in the tutorials below that I will try next. I got a *lot* further with your help. Now Android runs, but the mouse doesn't work yet inside of Android on Windows. But other than that - it's looking good. I followed this tutorial with the exceptions noted below: http://www.wikigain.com/install-andr...on-virtualbox/ To add to our combined tribal knowledge, here is my log file. 1. Download, install & configure VirtualBox (tutorial separately found) a. Find the latest stable version: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu...EST-STABLE.TXT (5.1.30) http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.30/ b. Download the latest stable ISO: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu...118389-Win.exe c. Download the latest stable guest additions: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu...ons_5.1.30.iso 2. Download the latest Android X86 32-bit ISO file (usually less than 1GB) https://www.fosshub.com/Android-x86....86-7.1-rc2.iso 3. Setting up the VirtualBox VM may be tricky - here's what I tried: Name: Android-7-nougat-32b Type: Linux Version: Other Linux (32-bit) Next 4. Memory size: 2048MB Next 5. Create a virtual hard disk now. Create 6. VDI(VirtualBox Disk Image) Next 7. Dynamically allocated Next 8. Virtual hard disk size: 8.00GB Note: This has to be big enough to hold the Android system, plus your apps and your app data. Create 9. Change the number of CPUs from 1 to 2 CPUs: Right click on "Android-7-nougat-32b" and select "Settings" System Processor tab 2 CPU OK 10. Change the display memory from 16MB to 128MB. Right click on "Android-7-nougat-32b" and select "Settings" Display Screen tab 128MB OK 11. Point to the Android vdi file you created: Right click on "Android-7-nougat-32b" and select "Settings" Storage Tree Controller: IDE - (aka remove) Storage Tree + Add IDE Controller Choose existing disk. This PC Local Disk (C Users username VirtualBox VMs Android-7-nougat-32b Android-7-nougat-32b.vdi Open 12. Remove the CD Click on the "+CD" icon next to "Controller:IDE" in the Storage Tree Select "Leave Empty" when it asks "would you like to choose a virtual optical disk to put in the drive or leave it empty for now?) 13. Select the "Empty" CD icon inside of "Storage Tree" Change the Attributes from "IDE Primary Sloave to "IDE Secondary Master" and then click on the CD icon to "Choose Virtual Optical Disk File..." and navigate to your Android iso file "android-x86-7.1-rc2.iso" Open OK 14. Select the "Android-7-nougat-32b" and press the green-arrow "Start" button. 15. Choose the "Installation" option when you see a screen saying: Selection choice: Live CD - Run Android-X86 without installation Live CD - VESA mode Live CD - Debug mode Installation - Install Android-X86 to harddisk --- Choose this option! 16. Choose to "Create/Modify partitions" when you see the screen: Choose Partition Please select a partition to install Android-x86: Create/Modify partitions --- Choose this option! OK 17. Do you want to use GPT? No Enter 18. Create new partition from free space. New Enter Primary Enter Size (in MB): 8587.19 Enter Bootable Enter Check the flags say it's bootable. Name=sda1, Flags=Boot Part, Type=Primary, FS Type=Linux, Size(MB)=8587.20 Write Enter yes Enter quit Enter 19. Now you're back to the "Choose Partition" screen. Select the "sda1 unknown VBOX HARDDISK" partition and press Enter That pops up a "Choose filesystem" box asking: Please select a filesystem to format sda1 Do not format ext4 --- select this ntfs fat32 Press Enter and then "Yes" to format. 20. When you are asked want to install Grub Bootloader, select YES and hit enter from your keyboard. 21. For system directory as read-write select Yes and hit enter 22. I didn't need this step... Then go to the Devices menu and select "Optical Drives" and then "Choose disk image..." and then "Remove disk from virtual drive". Force Unmount 23. Then press "Reboot" when you see the "Congratulations" menu: Congratulations! Android-x86 is installed successfully Run Android-x86 Reboot --- I selected this http://www.wikigain.com/install-andr...on-virtualbox/ At this point, I get a blue Android setup screen asking me to choose the language, but the Windows mouse doesn't yet put a cursor inside the Android window except for the menus on the VM window. So that's all I need to debug now. |
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/nIn news
At this point, I get a blue Android setup screen asking me to choose the language, but the Windows mouse doesn't yet put a cursor inside the Android window except for the menus on the VM window. So that's all I need to debug now. The mouse is strange. And, for some reason, the Guest Additions ISO won't work either. C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso But Android is up, a Google Play account was created, and I ran Android software on Windows following these tutorials for installing Android 7 Nougat on Windows http://www.wikigain.com/install-andr...-nougat-on-pc/ http://www.wikigain.com/install-andr...on-virtualbox/ Using those articles, I now have Android 7.1 running inside of Windows. http://i.cubeupload.com/hb3lIb.jpg I've used Google Play to install Android software in the virtual machine, and it seems to work. http://i.cubeupload.com/LhQbwD.jpg The mouse is quirky, and I can't get the Guest Additions ISO to work but so far those are the only glitches. http://i.cubeupload.com/pXkXrr.png |
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/nIn , Ant
wrote: 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. At the moment, I have Android 7.1 Nougat running inside of Windows using VirtualBox (which was already installed and running Linux & Windows). Android isn't as nicely integrated into VirtualBox as is Linux though, so without a tutorial, you'll be wasting too much time setting it up. Even with a tutorial, they skip the steps I already did to set up VirtualBox and they skip the steps to integrate the mouse, screenshots, and clipboard. For example, the guest additions iso won't load. http://i.cubeupload.com/7nCcyp.jpg |
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Joe Scotch wrote:
321 Payer-my.bhul.video.player-1303-v1.3.3.apk Adware Windows: VideoLAN VLC (adfree) 3C Toolbox-ccc71.at.free-19232-v1.9.2.3.apk Adware, superfluous on Windows AdAway-org.adaway-60-v3.2.apk Adware Windows: uBlock Origin, AdBlock Plus for web browser, superfluous in other Windows software Adobe Photoshop Sketch-com.adobe.creativeapps.sketch-20200001-v2.0.162.apk Windows: Krita, MyPaint ... lots of choices. AFWall+--dev.ukanth.ufirewall-15902-v2.9.1.apk Oh puh-leaze, you already know there are robust Windows firewalls. AirDroid-com.sand.airdroid-30203-v4.1.0.4.apk Windows: Brings phone screen to Windows. Not applicable on Windows. Alarm Klock-com.angrydoughnuts.android.alarmclock-15-v2.3.apk Windows: https://www.google.com/search?q=wind...clock+freeware (I'll let you research what features you actually use in Alarm Klock to have in a Windows program). All-In-One Toolbox-imoblife.toolbox.full-150155-v7.2.4.apk Adware Windows: TONS of these all-in-one programs, typically with weak components (better to get single-purpose more robust tools). All video player-com.sva.mediaplayer.hdvideoplayer-4-v4.0.apk Not found at Google Play Store. How many video players do you need? Windows: VideoLAN, MPC-HC, and lots of other choices. Allo-com.google.android.apps.fireball-20070018-v8.0.035_RC09 (armeabi-v7a_xhdpi).apk Oh, yes, there are no Windows chat apps, uh huh. Android Explorer-com.iamtrk.androidexplorer-1-v1.0.apk Windows: Use Windows/File Explorer or many alternatives. Androsens 2-com.tritop.androsense2-13-v1.93.apk Not applicable to a PC. AndSMB-lysesoft.andsmb-31-v3.4.apk Windows: Don't need a Samba client on Windows. Need one on Linux (and Android is a Linux variant). Angulo-eu.domob.angulo-20000-v2.0.apk Not found on Google Play Store. AnySoftKeyboard-com.menny.android.anysoftkeyboard-1726-v1.8.401.apk PCs have real keyboards, not onscreen touchpads. I didn't bother to analyze the rest of your very long list as it is evident you have not inspected those Android apps to see if there are Windows equivalents or even a need on a PC for Android functions related to hardware features of THAT platform (smartphones). |
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In alt.windows7.general Joe Scotch wrote:
/nIn , Ant wrote: 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. At the moment, I have Android 7.1 Nougat running inside of Windows using VirtualBox (which was already installed and running Linux & Windows). Android isn't as nicely integrated into VirtualBox as is Linux though, so without a tutorial, you'll be wasting too much time setting it up. Even with a tutorial, they skip the steps I already did to set up VirtualBox and they skip the steps to integrate the mouse, screenshots, and clipboard. For example, the guest additions iso won't load. http://i.cubeupload.com/7nCcyp.jpg Yep, it is not easy. It looks like it is still not easy. BlueStack is still the best to me. -- Quote of the Week: "The world flatters the elephant and tramples on the ant." --Indian Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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On 01/01/18 20:11, Joe Scotch wrote:
What free Android emulator do *YOU* use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs? In another thread, we found that nobody has ported a useful Android open-source tool to Windows, where Andy Burns suggested that Android emulation on Windows might work. Is there an ad-free YouTube clone for Windows like NewPipe is for Android? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...re/fLmXv99riaY As many of us are ancient octogenarians, we've already tried almost every emulator that ever existed by now - so - I simply ask one question here of the people who *ALREADY* use Android emulation on Windows. If you don't already use Android emulation, you probably won't be able to answer the question I don't think. However ... If you do use Android emulation on Windows, what free emulator do you recommend for running an F-Droid open-source tool such as New Pipe is? https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ (I will post the results of a RTFM in a followup but the question is not what free emulators "exist" nor which are in the "top 10" lists - but which free emulator *you* use that you like - and why). The topic is: What free Android emulator do *YOU* use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs? Your better off installing it. That's if you have a laptop. Install is as if you where planing on creating a dual boot system. I can tell you from experience. On older laptops it makes windows look and run like ****. on how to install it youtube is your freind. |
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/nIn , VanguardLH wrote:
I didn't bother to analyze the rest of your very long list as it is evident you have not inspected those Android apps to see if there are Windows equivalents or even a need on a PC for Android functions related to hardware features of THAT platform (smartphones). It would take too long to go through that list. I went through the installed apps and already characterized that the main things that are on Android but not on Windows on my phone are a. Simple sand timer style quick 10-minute timer apps b. Simple photo manipulation where you swish your finger over the photo c. Powerful Wi-Fi signal strength debugging tools (better than inSSIDer) All in all, I would agree now that I've done the same kind of survey you've done, that the software on Android doesn't have a lot over the software on Windows. The only two that I can think of that I want to port are the sand timers and the New Pipe YouTube Red clone. Maybe a few calculators - but that's about it. |
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