We talk a lot about emulating PC experiences on our phones, but what about putting phones on PC? Let's look at the best Android emulators.

Mobile technology company Myriad has updated its Dalvik virtual machine for Android with Dalvik Turbo, which it says offers three times the performance for the same memory requirements. Substantial ...

Throughout the rapid and tumultuous history of Android, which is now five years old, almost every aspect of the OS has been changed, updated, or overhauled in some way. Everything, that is, except for ...

To run Android apps on a Mac, use emulators like Android Studio or Genymotion. Install Android Studio from Google’s website, set up a virtual device, and run apps via the Google Play Store.

With the new Android OS 2.2 release gaining plenty of kudos from Nexus One owners, Google has been unpicking some of the low level smarts that make it so much faster. One key component is the Dalvik ...

Google could be heading for a showdown with Sun over the way Android, Google’s new mobile phone software platform, handles Java. Instead of using the standards-based Java Micro Edition (JME) as an ...

Rather than using Sun's Java Micro Edition and paying licensing fees for it, Google built its own alternative called Dalvik for use in its Android mobile platform Google could be heading for a ...

Capable of running entire operating systems in isolated environments, virtual machines have a lot of utility for tinkerers. If you’re a fan of distro-hopping, you can spin up VMs to try out some fun ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...