How much do you love Android? Do you love it so much that you’d like to use it all the time, even when you’re sitting at your PC? This might be taking the idea of being an Android fanboy a little too far, but there are lots of reasons why you might want to have Android running on your PC.
Just as you may emulate a second copy of Windows in a virtual environment for testing purposes, so you can do the same with Google’s mobile operating system. Not all that long ago I looked at how this can be achieved with VirtualBox and a freely downloadable ROM, but now I have another more impressive and stable option to share — Genymotion.
As some people found, the method I outlined in the original VirtualBox article did not work with all computers — when it did work, it was great, but there was scope for things to go wrong. It seemed that I was one of the lucky ones as I was able to run a virtualized copy of Android without any problems, but this was certainly not the case for everyone.
The method I’m about to run through with Genymotion still uses VirtualBox as its basis. This time however, there are a couple of key differences. Firstly, there is no need to have VirtualBox installed in advance as the installer includes it. Secondly, it is possible to emulate specific devices — so you could run a Nexus 7 within Windows 8.
So, let’s jump in and get started.
Download Genymotion
The first thing you’ll need to do is sign up for an account with Genymotion. Pay a visit to the website, click the Sign Up button and run through the process of creating an account — this is completely free.
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