The Droid4x emulator is a real Android virtual machine with which developers can use to develop and test apps. And you can even download apps from the Google Play store.

There is nothing to stop you from setting up multiple virtual Android machines, so you can either try out different things on each, or run different versions of Android.

Download the Android Live CD (see Resources). Open VMware and configure a new virtual machine. Select the downloaded ISO image as the installation source for the virtual machine.

Android and Windows are totally different operating systems. But that doesn't mean they can't work together on the same machine.

When it comes to testing apps you have two main options: the Android Virtual Device (AVD) Manager and Genymotion, but which is best? Let’s find out.

Jide Technology has released Remix OS Player, a new Android emulator that creates a virtual Android 6.0.1 desktop within the Windows environment for free.

AMIDuOS, a popular solution for running Android apps on Windows, has issued a major update today that brings users a full Lollipop virtual environment. The update, to version 2.0, is most notable ...

Microsoft, doing its best to facilitate its Edge and web platforms, is giving away free VMware and VirtualBox virtual machines. Developers can download — free of charge — VMs running: XP ...

Android 13 isn't a massive update so far, but it does include some improvements to virtualization which allowed Windows to boot on a Pixel.

Google is no longer working on Ferrochrome launcher, an Android app that would’ve made it easy to run Chrome OS in a virtual machine.