How to use Android apps on your PC with VirtualBox

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Android is an operating system that puts millions of applications at our disposal. Many of them offer us really interesting functions, although the fact of using them on a fairly small screen can be important. found in terms of usability. In this article, we explain how you can use Android applications on your PC in a very simple way.

Download VirtualBox and the Android x86 installation file

To perform this simple trick we will use VirtualBox . Thanks to this free application, we can make a virtual installation of the Android operating system on our PC. This will allow us to use all the applications found on Google Play on a much larger screen than a smartphone or tablet, with all the advantages that this implies.

The first step will be to download and install VirtualBox , something we can do from the official website of this software. Once inside the VirtualBox website, we enter the download section and look for the installation package that corresponds to our operating system, in this case Windows. VirtualBox is also available for Linux, Solaris, and Mac.

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Once the download is finished, we will only have to install VirtualBox like any other Windows program, something very simple.

Now that you have VirtualBox, you will need an ISO image of Android x86 to be able to do the installation. To get it, you just have to go to the official website of the project and click on the "Download" button.

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Now click on one of the two mirrors that appear, it doesn't matter to choose one or the other.

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The last step is to select the Android 8.1 ISO image , click on it and the download will begin.

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Install Android x86 on your PC with VirtualBox

The next step is to create a virtual machine in which we will install Android . To do this, you just have to follow the steps that we indicate below, it is very simple.

Open the VirtualBox application and click on the button to add a new virtual machine . This will open the wizard that will guide you through the entire process.

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The first step will be to give the virtual machine a name, choose a path where it will be saved, and choose the type of operating system to install. The name and the path are totally free , you can put whatever you want.

Regarding the type of operating system, we will choose Linux and then Other Linux 32 bits . Once we have everything, we click on "Next".

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Now we must allocate an amount of RAM memory to the virtual machine. This depends on your PC, if you only have 4 GB of RAM, allocate 1 GB to the virtual machine. If you have 8 or more GB of RAM, you can allocate 2 GB of RAM or more to the virtual machine. In this case we will allocate 2 GB.

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The next step will be to create a virtual hard disk . This is still a folder in which all the files of the Android operating system will be saved.

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We will have to choose the format of the virtual hard disk, we recommend using " VDI " which is the native format of VirtualBox and does not give any kind of problem.

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We will also have to assign a size to the virtual hard disk, we can do it in a fixed or dynamic way. It is better to make it dynamic, in this way the folder will grow over time and it will not occupy all the space from the beginning.

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We select the maximum size that we want the virtual hard disk to have. This is the maximum size it will have, if you have marked the option to reserve the space dynamically, it will grow as needed. In this chaos we put 8 GB.

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With this, we will have the virtual machine ready to install Android. The next step is to boot it up in order to install the operating system. To do this we select the Android virtual machine and click on the start button , the one with the green arrow.

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Now we will have to select the Android installation ISO file that we downloaded before.

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After that, the Android installation program will start. We can also use Android without installing it, although it will work much slower and all data will be lost when the PC is turned off. To install it we just have to click on the lower option .

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The next step is to select the virtual hard drive that we have created before, in your case you will only have one so select it and click OK.

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You will also need to format the hard drive with a file system, we recommend using ext3 which is the most advanced with which Android can work. After that, click OK.

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The wizard will ask you if you want to install the GRUB bootloader , click Yes to do so and you can use Android without problems.

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At last the installation process on the hard drive will begin , it will only take a couple of minutes as Android is a very light operating system.

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When finished you will receive a congratulatory message. To start Android select the option " Run Android-x86 " and click OK.

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Now you have to restart the virtual machine in which you have installed Android. If everything went well, you will see how the operating system starts up in a window on your PC. In this way you can use Android on your computer in the simplest and safest way possible.

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The operating system will look the same as on a tablet or smartphone, with the difference that you will have a much larger screen on which you can play better than ever. Even the setup wizard is the same as the one you've been seeing so far every time you changed mobile.

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