I don't know anything about cellphones. I just ordered a Pixel 7 off Swappa so I'll get it next week. At the last minute I decided not to get an iPhone because I wanted the simplest, smoothest emulation possible. I'm also getting a new Windows 11 PC.

Long story short - I hate cellphones.

  • What are good emulators?

  • What are bad emulators I should avoid? They have spyware, bloatware, etc.

  • What are good resources to learn about emulators? I'm starting from zero.

  • What questions am I forgetting to ask? It's hard to know which end is up because I don't have any of the hardware now.

Once I have my phone and new PC - my first goal is to order food off Instacart via my PC. I've never used Instacart directly before. Instead I've used Smith's "powered by Instacart" via my PC with no cellphone stuff at all. In fact - my phone listed with them was disconnected many years ago and I've left "updates" unchecked. Smith's never nagged me to update my phone number so I never updated it.

  • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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    2 days ago

    There's always the dedicated developer emulators: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator

    You can get images of every os version for just about every cpu architecture and most of them have Google services enabled

    • edge [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      Is there a good Android emulator for Linux?

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        3 days ago

        There's a lot of Android container options, but I haven't used many and the times I have used them were not anywhere near extensive enough to review them

        (edited)

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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    3 days ago

    the native win11/win10 one is still getting LTS community support
    https://github.com/MustardChef/WSABuilds

    WSABuilds has entered LTS (Long Term Support) for WSA version 2311.40000.5.0, where the Magisk version, KernelSU version and GApps version will be kept up to date via new releases.

    This repo will not be archived and support will still be given to any users installing WSA Builds from this repo. Thank you all for using this repository and supporting my work, its been a pleasure serving this community.

    bluestacks was decent but been on sicko-tux for a while so that may have changed