Android Emulator Network How To Run Android

Today Im going to take the cross-platform fun one step further, by showing you how to run Android apps on your Chromebook or right on your macOS loaded Mac.

Perhaps youre interested in seeing what the other side has to offer, or maybe youre a developer who wants to dabble in both iOS and Android.

Some people may want to be able to play Android games on their Macs or PCs, just because theyre plugged in and have infinite battery life.

Whatever the reason, you can run Android apps on your MacBook-turned-Chromebook or on the Mac itself.

However, you may not want to for some very good reasons that Ill divulge further on in this post.

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No, this doesnt mean that youre going to be putting on a welding mask and firing up a generator to power your arc welder.

The acronym ARC stands for App Runtime for Chrome, and it provides a way for developers or Android-curious folks to run one Android app at a time in either the Chrome OS or Chrome Web Browser.

Click the Add to Chrome button, at which time a dialog appears asking whether you wish to Add Arc Welder.

Click Add App, and ARC Welder is downloaded and installed as part of the Chrome environment on your Mac.

It will also ask you to select a directory (folder) on your Mac or PC where it can write files to the computers filesystem.

Once youve selected that folder, ARC Welder asks you to Add your APK in other words, give it the Android app file so it can be converted to a Chrome app and run on your computer.

Youll be asked to provide a device orientation (portrait or landscape) and type (phone or tablet).

However, at least with Chrome Web Browser, you cant download those files directly to the Mac instead, they want to be installed on an Android device.

What youll need to do and I dont recommend it is to get APK-Downloader.

Why do I not recommend this You need to have a Device ID for your Android deviceand what if you dont have an Android device Its a no-go situation.

In order to get the device ID for my Android device in order to try this, I actually had to run a Device ID app in an emulator (see below) then paste that ID into APK-Downloader.

Even after that, it wouldnt run on Chrome Browser, only on actual Chrome OS on my Frankentosh.

We dont accept any responsibility for any issues that may occur if you use one of these sites to download free apps.

I also suggest that you do your own searches for APK files as we will not recommend any of these sites.

BlueStacks 2 is a free Android emulator that runs on macOS and Windows, so no matter what kind of personal computer you have, you can try out Android apps.

In case youre not familiar with a kernel panic, its not the type of thing you want to see on a regular basis.

Your Mac locks up completely and youre usually greeted with a screen that looks something like this.

So take that as a big caveat; you may have to devote your Mac strictly to running the emulator and nothing else.

Mac Android Emulator Network