ANDROID EMULATORS

• ANDROID GAMING AND NON GAMING EMULATORS.

Android emulator is a software which emulates ( kind of fake ) android device. You can install apk or softwares from google play. You can use them to test the app you have created.

You can use them to play games which are only available on android using your PC. You can use them to run applications which are only available for mobiles. You can use them to run whatsapp on your PC, without having to scan QR code all the time with web.whatsapp.com. Usage list is limited to your imagination.

emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest). An emulator typically enables the host system to run software or use peripheral devices designed for the guest system. Emulation refers to the ability of a computer program in an electronic device to emulate (or imitate) another program or device. Many printers, for example, are designed to emulate HP LaserJet printers because so much software is written for HP printers. If a non-HP printer emulates an HP printer, any software written for a real HP printer will also run in the non-HP printer emulation and produce equivalent printing. Since at least the 1990s, many video game enthusiasts have used emulators to play classic (and/or forgotten) arcade games from the 1980s using the games' original 1980s machine code and data, which is interpreted by a current-era system.

A hardware emulator is an emulator which takes the form of a hardware device. Examples include the DOS-compatible card installed in some 1990s-era Macintosh computers like the Centris 610 or Performa 630 that allowed them to run personal computer (PC) software programs and FPGA-based hardware emulators. In a theoretical sense, the Church-Turing thesis implies that (under the assumption that enough memory is available) any operating environment can be emulated within any other software.