Android Emulator

[ionbasa]

Out of curiosity, do any of you use  Android Emulators, such as BlueStack or Andy?

 

I've got Android_x86 virtualized running under Hyper-V buts its not quite what I'm looking for. Any thoughts? Suggestions?

Open source is a plus.

[Droidbot]

Nox is good, even has built in SU but it's buggy..

[ionbasa]

3 minutes ago, Name Taken said:

Genymotion.

More in line for what I need, but that price though. Sadly, it seems there are no open source alternatives? Otherwise I'm stuck with Android-x86 running on Hyper-V.

 

[8uhbbhu8]

Bluestacks occasionally. Have it as a backup for my authenticators 

[gtx1060=value]

use leapdroid - google acquired them so they must be decent, i use it and i can run 2 vms on one pc, and then i can get vmception where i have 2 android vms on my pc then another 2 in a vm and so on and so forth -

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

what do you use the VM for?

[ionbasa]

1 hour ago, SCHISCHKA said:

what do you use the VM for?

Testing apps in development as a side project  It offers relatively good performance, but there are quirks I really don't like, ie: mouse keyboard capture is wonky. I could switch to VMware Workstation or Virtualbox, but at the expense of migrating everything from Hyper-V to that platform. Note: If the Hyper-V role is enabled, third party virtualization  programs do not work.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

12 minutes ago, ionbasa said:

Testing apps in development as a side project  It offers relatively good performance, but there are quirks I really don't like, ie: mouse keyboard capture is wonky. I could switch to VMware Workstation or Virtualbox, but at the expense of migrating everything from Hyper-V to that platform. Note: If the Hyper-V role is enabled, third party virtualization  programs do not work.

there are two ways for having a fast vm for development. use intel HAXM with an intel CPU or use linux. Linux is much faster coz its using a compatible environment for KVM optimisations. Microsoft's hyper-V is only really good at virtualisaing Microsofts products which is why i guess VMWare is so popular

[ionbasa]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

there are two ways for having a fast vm for development. use intel HAXM with an intel CPU or use linux. Linux is much faster coz its using a compatible environment for KVM optimisations. Microsoft's hyper-V is only really good at virtualisaing Microsofts products which is why i guess VMWare is so popular

Yes, I know. I do have KVM available to me as an option, but not on my own client machine. I could run it off my NAS, but that just adds complexity and needing to VNC in to the client. I might just dual boot with Debian if that's the case.

[LogicalDrm]

Droid4X is my go-to. It has really annoying interface color, buts its best from what I've tested. Bluestacks installing crapware to keep free operation and Nox being just amazingly heavy.