Historically, the PC and consoles have been responsible for bringing us quality video games. But over the years smartphones have taken on a very important role, some even already have important championships in eSports. Now on Android we have very capable and entertaining games, so you might want to emulate one on your PC, so we show you how to do it.
To start you would need a relatively powerful PC, with a decent processor and RAM to play the best Android games without problems. Nor will we give you specific minimum requirements, but at least a CPU with at least two cores and yes it can be more than 4GB of RAM. In my case with my PC I have dedicated 2 cores and 2GB of RAM to the emulator and it has worked very smoothly. To take account.
Bluestacks, an Android emulator for your computer
BlueStacks is an emulator available for Windows and Mac OS in which you can emulate your Android games and applications. You just need to download it for free from the official website.
Once downloaded and installed, when you open it, the first thing it will do is ask you to enter your Google account. Enter your email and password, it will be necessary so you can open your credentials and use the one you have on the phone, since it loads all the credentials specifically.
We enter it and we can access the Play Store, There we look for the game we want and we install it as if from our mobile phone would be treated. The high compatibility means that we can play almost any of the many titles available in the Google store, which also has a lot of variety.
We install it and once installed, we are ready to play. It will be necessary to download the APK complete, then the software decompresses it completely. It is important to mention that this is done for greater fluidity and you will need to have the permissions, which will be asked for as on your Android smartphone.
The experience has been good, I have not experienced lag or anything weird, keyboard controls are very intuitive. The problem is that I wanted to play without a keyboard, with an alternative, and although it detected it and I was able to adjust the controls, I have not been able to play with my XBOX controller.
The folks at Bluestacks claim that this emulator works faster than a Galaxy S9 +, the truth is that it has been very fluid. I suppose it will be rummaging to finish adjusting it as you want, but it is install and play.
Also in the start you have a launcher of your applications to access directly, something like your game library.
Overall it's a good experienceAlthough it should also depend on the PC you have, but in general all or almost all PCs are more powerful than a mobile phone, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem for most of them.
Also in case you are interested, This program also allows you to emulate applications on your mobile phone, even if they are not games. An option that is never bad.
MeMu, the best alternative
Sometimes we don't have a very powerful computer, so we have to look for an alternative to BlueStacks, which makes excessive use of the processor and RAM memory. Something less is required with MeMu, an emulator that you will surely like for its ease, you just have to have the title files and little else.
It has high compatibility, so at least 95% of the games can be played without problem using this computer application, which works on Windows 7 onwards. The function is none other than being able to emulate any video game without overloading the Microsoft system, since it does not increase consumption.
Among the main features are some such as customization options, file exchange between Windows to Android and vice versa, possibility of opening multiple instances, among other things. Another thing to highlight is the keyboard shortcuts, which come in handy for Windows users.
You can download the application from the official website, and it hardly requires any configuration, just install and start working. MeMu is a program that is completely free, in addition to not requiring many things to start any of the APKs that we have available on the desktop.
other alternatives
Different programs have been joining BlueStacks and MeMu with which to play almost any title of the thousands available in the Play Store. You will surely need a controller for some of them, especially those involving football, it requires greater precision and this is important.
Nox has a version for Windows, starting with Windows 7 it usually works and works quite well, among the notable points is the simplicity due to its interface. You have the basics, once you want to start click on the tab and load the APK, which you have at hand and is actually functional in most titles.
Genymotion is one of the quite popularThe good thing is that it has different default configurations, in case you want to set one or the other, depending on the moment you will need any of them. It is recommended, on the other hand, that you have resources, a PC with at least 4 GB or more and the basics to start working. You have it available as a direct download from its website and it weighs just a few megabytes to install on your computer.
Android Studio, the main base
A program that many people have been using to program and eventually emulate a title is Android Studio, since it is an interesting and above all powerful tool. It also works in Windows, so if you want you can try it under the interface of your computer without problem.
Android Studio is a tool that has its own internal emulator, so if you have it at your disposal you can move any video game you want. You have the program available in Android Developer and you don't need much to move any title you have in the Play Store.
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