Andy Review Android Emulator to Run Apps on PCIf you want to take breaks from toiling away in an Excel spreadsheet to check your Snapchat messages, play a few rounds of Candy Crush Saga or test drive other Android apps, Andy aka Andy the Android Emulator will let you do all of that on your Windows PC or Mac. Running Android 4. Kit. Kat in a virtual machine, this free utility lets you launch apps in full screen mode for an immersive Android experience or a resizable window that sits next to your Windows programs. Andy provides a solid emulation experience with helpful features like the ability to use your phone as a controller. However, paid alternatives, such as AMIDu. OS 1. 0 and Blue. Stacks 2. 4year, offer better performance and compatibility. Adware Association. Its worth noting that Andys parent company, Search Safer Inc., is an alleged adware distributor. A Reddit user contacted the company and was told that future versions might include optional toolbars. After backing up my computer and installing Andy, I ran adwarespyware tools Malwarebytes and Spybot Search Destroy, which said my system was clean, so I dont think you need to be terribly concerned about adware yet. Microsoft spent a massive amount of time and resources trying to create a platform that would suit desktop computers and mobile devices perfectly. With. Yes, Android 4. This is all possible due to Androidx86, an. Be an Early Adopter. Get early access to the latest features and improvements in Android Studio by downloading the Android Studio Preview. Nonetheless, its something to keep in mind for future updates. Installation. I had a mixed experience when installing Andy. On the Surface Pro 3, Andy refused to install. The installer seemed to go through the steps, including installing Oracle Virtual. Box, but after the required reboot, I got an error that Windows couldnt find handyandy. Andys support page hosted on Facebook is filled with comments from others experiencing similar problems. Multiple attempts to uninstall and reinstall Andy on the Surface failed, even after steps like using CCleaner to remove any leftover registry entries Andy might have left behind. However, I had no problems installing Andy on my older Think. Pad laptop with an Ivy Bridge Core i. GB of RAM. The minimum requirements for the program are somewhat demanding an AMD or Intel dual core CPU that supports virtualization technology VT, Windows 7 or 8. GB of RAM, up to 2. GB of free disk space and an Open. GL ES 2. 0 capable video card. As with AMIDu. OS, virtualization has to be enabled in the BIOS. According to the developer, your computer should be fairly new less than 2 years old, and have at least 4. GB of RAM, to run smoothly. I found that just to get the program to open without mysterious VM process errors, I often had to restart my computer and run Andy without other Windows programs running at the same time. MORE How to Run an Android Emulator on Your PCUser Interface. Once you get Andy to install and open, youll be greeted upon launching the app with the standard Android lock screen Swipe the padlock or click and drag it with your mouse, and on first launch, youll go through the typical Android first time setup, connecting your Google account to Andy. Bd Demuxer Pro 2.3 there. One of the things I like best about Andy is that, unlike other Android emulators, such as AMIDu. OS, youre not forced to run the program in either full screen mode or a fixed size window. You can resize the window on the fly, and the app will adjust accordingly. Eskn.png' alt='Android 2.2 Emulator For Windows 7' title='Android 2.2 Emulator For Windows 7' />From the Andy icon in the Windows status bar, you can also set the exact resolution and DPI you want for the window. If you hover your mouse over the bottom of your screen, youll also get some handy tools that let you switch between landscape or portrait mode and full screen or window, as well as select the microphone and camera hardware to use. Otherwise, this is your standard Android system running in Windows, with full multitouch support and sensor integration. Andy would obviously work best with a touch screen PC, so you can swipe, tap and tilt your screen as you would an Android tablet. If your PC doesnt have a touch screen, however, you can still do most things in Android apps with your mouse and keyboard. Andy includes useful keyboard shortcuts, so you can do things like hold down the Ctrl key and use your mouses scroll wheel to zoom in and out, or use Ctrl and your keyboard arrow keys to mimic swiping. Phone As Controller. Another unique ability of Andy is it lets you use your Android phone as a remote control, mirroring the screen on Andy on your phone. This is a great benefit when youre playing games like Asphalt 8, so you can tilt your phone and use its touch screen to navigate, rather than having to tilt your entire laptop which would be unwieldy, if yours doesnt have a detachable display. After pairing my phone with Andy, I found the remote control worked well as a handy replacement for a touch screen, except for a couple of times when the connection timed out. The next version of Andy will supposedly allow you to map keyboard keys for example, use W, A, S and D to move a car in a game. Features. Andy offers a few interesting additional features to integrate Android with Windows. You can launch Android apps from shortcuts in your Windows desktop, copy files between Android and Windows via a shared folder and ES File Explorer, and get push notifications from Android in Windows. It comes with a customized ADW launcher as well, so apps you install are automatically put into categorized folders on the home screen. Androidx86 Project Run Android on Your PC. This is a project to port Android open source project to x86 platform, formerly known as patch hosting for android x86. Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Unfortunately, using the custom launcher means you cant use the superhelpful Google Now app, which puts Google Now cards in a new screen and shows you the weather, stock prices and websites related to your recent search results. Bugs. You have to choose between ADW launcher and Google Now, but Googles service works horribly in Andy. Saying OK, Google to your computer does nothing except make you think youre going crazy, and even tapping the microphone for voice commands results in a blank screen glitch in both the Google Now launcher and Andys custom one. Google Now did work in AMIDu. OS, so its not due to an inability to run on an emulator but rather an unfortunate glitch. Android 2.2 Emulator For Windows 7' title='Android 2.2 Emulator For Windows 7' />Andy supposedly lets you sync both the apps and their settings on your phone to Andy using 1. Click. Sync, but trying to connect 1. Click. Sync to my Google account in Andy resulted in errors. This is a feature that you wouldnt enable anyway if you want to keep the apps on your phone separate from the ones in the virtual machine. Performance and Gaming. Android emulators are notoriously slow, and unfortunately, Andy is no exception. The graphics in Temple Run couldnt keep up with the game so I just kept hearing that demon creature kill me over and over without seeing it happen, and Batman Arkham Origins took an eternity to load, only to get stuck in the first screen. YouWave.jpg?resize=438%2C381' alt='Android 2.2 Emulator For Windows 7' title='Android 2.2 Emulator For Windows 7' />Even simpler apps and games such Clash of Clans, Angry Birds, Whats. App and Sunrise Calendar were slow to load and glitchy at times. For comparison, all of these ran flawlessly on AMIDu. OS on the same system, and most of them also ran well on Blue. Stacks, which requires fewer system resources. Performance does depend on your systems specs and available resources, and the Think. Pad laptop I tested Andy on definitely could use more than its 4. Brown Lemay Bursten Quimica La Ciencia Central Pdf. GB of RAM even though it meets Andys minimum requirements. However, my experience testing another Android emulator, AMIDu. OS, on this same machine was vastly better. The An. Tu. Tu benchmark put Andy, which it saw as a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, between the HTC One and the LG G3 in terms of overall performance. Andy scored 3. 1,2. Windows 10 Professional Service Pack 3 32 Bit'>Windows 10 Professional Service Pack 3 32 Bit. An. Tu. Tu, compared to AMIDu. OS 4. 5,6. 11 and Blue. Stacks 2. 8,3. 11.