How to play Android games on your computer: an overview of the programs.

The computer industry does not stand still. Every month thousands of new applications and games are released not only for the personal computer, but also for mobile platforms. But what should people do that do not have Android devices? How to play Android games on your computer?

Emulator

As for most other platforms, such as Play Station or Nintendo, special emulator programs have been created. They organize on the personal computer an environment that allows running games on Android through a computer. Let's look at some possible emulators.

1. Andy. Appeared a little later than the rest, this emulator quickly took its place among similar programs. It provides a fairly large number of functions, including managing applications on your computer through your mobile device, both through the controller.
2. BlueStacks. What can you say about this veteran? This emulator appeared among applications for a long time, but still is a fairly crude version with a lot of malfunctions and malfunctions. But except how to play Android games on the computer, with its help nothing can be done. If we talk about feedback from users, then they are in 80% negative. However, if you do not have a choice, or you need to start Android games on the computer, like air, and there is no alternative, you can use this emulator. Just keep in mind that it will require higher power from your computer.
3. Android SDK. Using this environment to play Android games on a PC is tantamount to nailing the nails with a microscope. This is a whole environment and an application development tool for Android. On it you, of course, will be able to launch any application, but this emulator works very slowly and is loaded for a long time, however it is necessary to mention it as an option.

Chrome

The main surprise is that now the browser "Chrome" supports Android applications. Before playing the Android games on your computer with Chrome, we need to download the browser extension called ARChon Runtime. After downloading it, you will need to unpack the archive into any folder (not to forget and lose it better in the browser directory). Then we perform the following actions.

1. Launch the browser "Chrome".
2. We go in the settings-extensions.
3. We tick the "Developer Mode".
4. Download the unpacked extension by selecting the desired folder.
5. If there are any errors during the installation, simply ignore them.
6. Now you need an application.
7. Remember that this extension works with modified applications, and regular APK files will not work.
8. After downloading the application / game you need, unpack it into a folder and install it in "Chrome", as well as the ARChon Runtime itself.
9. After restarting your game should appear in available browser applications.

Android OS

There is another way how to play Android games on the computer. This is the direct installation of the Android operating system on your computer. This is a full version, the same as Windows or Linux.

In order to do this, you will need a flash drive and an installation package. You can download the OS on the official website. An important fact is that this way of installing and launching Android applications includes the Live mode. That is, you can not install Android directly to the computer, but simply run the shell from the boot drive.

With the help of any program capable of burning an image to disk, we write the downloaded file to disk. You can use such programs as UltraIso, DaemonTools or NeroBurningRom.

Then reboot the computer, enter the BIOS. Customize it so that the initial boot takes place from the media you need (disk or flash drive). At the next boot, run the installation and that's it.

Attention! This method is not suitable for all personal computers and works at its whim. It is strongly recommended that you save all your data before starting the installation. Feedback from users is very ambiguous and the patterns by which you can determine the appropriate architecture of the PC, it is not revealed.

Virtual machine

Another way, including the previous one. Installation of Android OS can be performed not on a personal computer, but on a virtual machine. What it is?

1. Download from any source program Virtual box. It is designed to emulate the working environment of a personal computer.
2. In the settings, create a virtual hard disk. This will be a dedicated area of memory on your hard drive, designed to run the virtual machine. Remember, you can not change the size after allocating memory. Take care of the amount of space in advance.
3. Install on this "hard drive" Android, as in the previous chapter, with the exception that you can not worry about your data and the performance of your PC as a whole.