Bluestacks/Android emu on deck?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/SteamDeck

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  • QEMU

    Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

  • There's QEMU, VirtualBox, Anbox, WayDroid... It's all advanced stuff though, you might have to disable the read-only thing to install them, and know how to use a Virtual Machine. Anbox/WayDroid in particular require knowing how to use linux/arch more than QEMU/VirtualBox.

  • waydroid

    Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.

  • There's QEMU, VirtualBox, Anbox, WayDroid... It's all advanced stuff though, you might have to disable the read-only thing to install them, and know how to use a Virtual Machine. Anbox/WayDroid in particular require knowing how to use linux/arch more than QEMU/VirtualBox.

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  • anbox

    Discontinued Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system

  • There's QEMU, VirtualBox, Anbox, WayDroid... It's all advanced stuff though, you might have to disable the read-only thing to install them, and know how to use a Virtual Machine. Anbox/WayDroid in particular require knowing how to use linux/arch more than QEMU/VirtualBox.

  • qemu-android-x86-runner

    Quick Start on How to Run Android x86 in QEMU

  • There are a lot of tutorials, but it depends what you want, and they aren't tailored to SteamOS (meaning they won't tell you stuff like disabling read-only or enabling sudo). You have this for VirtualBox, this for QEMU (as well as this and this), this for Anbox, this for WayDroid...

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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