Fortunately, there are projects like Android-x86 which has just recently reached an important milestone of bringing Android 7.1 Nougat to any computers running on an Intel or AMD x86 processor.

Android developers are all too familiar with not-so-hot emulator performance, so it's a relief that there's now an system image in a native x86 for testing. While you'll still likely want to test ...

This week the team released the first stable build based on Android Oreo. The latest update has been in the works for a while — I reported on an Android-x86 8.1 release candidate last June.

When they launched the GPU acceleration, they also launched an x86 system image for Android, which means that the emulator could now run at native speeds on x86, rather than emulate ARM on x86.

There are many ways to experience Android-x86 on your PC. Perhaps the easiest but also most resource-intensive is to download the ISO and run it in a virtual machine like VMWare or VirtualBox.

When Google released Android 4.3 last week, the team wasted no time getting it up and running on x86 hardware. A test build of Android 4.3 for x86 is already available.

Google is working with Intel to release a version of Android designed to run on tablets, laptops and other computers with x86 chips. They've made some progress ...

Intel has released an x86 image for Android 4.0, which should speed up the PC-based Android emulator for developers.

After announcing that Android L would support 64-bit hardware way back in June, Google has finally released a 64-bit Android L developer preview emulator image. Curiously, though, it's a 64-bit ...