Hey Guys, as you know the Smartphone market is dominated by Android OS – which itself is an operating system designed / based on the linux kernel, but unfortunately the Android Emulators for Linux itself are quite less as compared to windows counterparts 🙁. So let’s have a look on the 5 best Android Emulators for Linu x to run android apps and play android games on Linux -Ubuntu,LinuxMint,Fedora,ArchLinux etc 1. Genymotion Genymotion – This is probably the Best Android emulator when it comes to Linux Platform due to some unique abilities present only in genymotion, Features of Genymotion are — • It allows us to easily Download pre-configured Android Images of various Android Versions and various Android device images such as Nexus 7,Galaxy S2,Galaxy S3 etc directly on our emulator. • It also allows us to configure the amount of resources e.g RAM,harddisk to be allocated to the Android device / Emulator. Great feature if limited on hardware resources.

• Genymotion directly supports networking through ethernet /Wi-Fi, emulates your connected connection directly so it use internet directly in the emulated android. • ADB Support and it also supports OpenGL hardware acceleration so your Android device works fullscreen and thus enhancing your experience while playing android games on your Linux! • It Also supports drag and drop file transfer to the emulated SD Card 🙂, supports Gyroscope,Light and accelerometer sensors too. • You need an account on Genymotion Cloud – to Download and deploy Genymotion android device — •. Note – Oracle Virtual Box must be installed on your Machine for Genymotion to work!, installing Virtual Box On Linux is covered at the end of this post 🙂 • Installation instructions for installing Geanymotion on Ubuntu/Archlinux are. 2.Andro VM AndroVM is the Parent Project of genymotion – nevertheless it still works and works awesomely!

Epub Publishing Guidelines. In this tutorial we are going to learn how to install the Android SDK and an Android Virtual Device on Kali Linux for your penetration testing lab! 5 Best Android Emulators for Linux, which can be used to run Android Apps on Linux, Play Android Games on Linux, All Major Linux Distros are supported! 2daygeek.com Linux Tips, Tricks & News today:- How to Install official Android Emulator (SDK) on Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Arch Linux. F1 Manager Patch 2009.

And the best thing about Andro VM is that the android machine is deployed offline on your PC unlike Genymotion where it is deployed on your PC through cloud, thus you can use Andro VM to install Android Emulator on your linux even offline • another striking feature of Andro VM is that it supports hardware OpenGL rendering through Virtual Box. • Virtual Box must be installed on your Linux OS for Andro VM to run, check end of the post for Virtual Box installation tutorial. • AndroVM supports Net Sharing from guest to host, the internet sharing as well as Installation tutorial for Andro VM is available here at their blog — >• AndroVM can be downloaded for both 32bit and 64-bit Linux Kernels from here –>. Andy Android Emulator by Andyroid.net – Andy OS • Although, yet in Beta at the time of writing this article – ANDY OS Android Emulator is pretty much exciting and the best Android emulator for Linux., being a beta tester i have the access to pre-release features of ANDY, hence i have given it the 3rd place, it could easily been the first one though! • Features of ANDY emulator include Google Play Store support inbuilt, none of the emulator has this feature inbuilt even for Windows builds! • Multi-Touch support 🙂 the word explains it all!

• Use your phone as a controller for controlling / playing the games, the picture alongside explains it 🙂 • Access the installed apps directly from the Desktop environment! • OpenGL hardware acceleration, Camera and Microphone all features supported!