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RetroArch is a free and open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications. It is the reference implementation of the libretro API, [2] [3] designed to be fast, lightweight, portable and without dependencies. [4]
Some VM/emulator apps have a fixed set of OS's or applications that can be supported. Since Android 8 and later versions of Android, some of these apps have been reporting issues as Google has heightened the security of file-access permissions on newer versions of Android. Some apps have difficulties or have lost access to SD card.
Anbox (short for “Android in a Box”) is a free and open-source compatibility layer that allows Android applications to run on Linux distributions [2] by using containerization techniques. Originally introduced by Canonical, Anbox executes Android applications in a lightweight system container, isolated from the host system for security and ...
The Ouya (/ ˈ uː j ə / OO-yə), stylized as OUYA, [5] is an Android-based microconsole developed by Ouya Inc. Julie Uhrman founded the project in 2012, [6] [7] bringing in designer Yves Béhar to collaborate on its design [8] and Muffi Ghadiali as VP of Product Management [9] to put together the engineering team. [10]
MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. [1]
scrcpy (short for "screen copy") is a free and open-source screen mirroring application that allows control of an Android device from a desktop computer. [2] The software is developed by Genymobile SAS, a company which develops Android emulator Genymotion. [3] The application primarily uses the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) via a USB connection to ...
For emulators or compatibility layers to emulate or virtualize a Linux-based OS on Android, PRoot must be used. [5] However, when PRoot is used, the environment inside of Proot can act like a Chroot environment, and/or a separate mounted environment.
In January 2018, BlueStacks announced the release of the BlueStacks + N Beta, running on Android 7 (Android Nougat).This was notable as most Android emulators were running Android 4.4 (KitKat) at that time. [20] This version was powered by an upgraded "HyperG" graphics engine that enabled the use of the full array of Android 7 APIs.