But there will be compromises, and you should check that these are acceptable.

The most painful in this respect was Genymotion, but AndYs installer took its sweet time too.

Nox, for instance, allows you to bind swipes and tilts of the virtual device to keyboard shortcuts.

If you havent got these options it will be impossible to use some mobile apps and games.

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Its targeted primarily at software developers rather than consumers, but if you think you need its power, give it a try.

Ours timed out a few times before we could get it to complete, although this is partly down to a less-than-ideal broadband connection.).

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And you can connect a physical device to your Mac and use it as a remote control for apps youre testing in Genymotion.

This is not behaviour wed expect from a reputable piece of software, but both could be skipped without apparent consequences and weve not had problems since, so well look the other way for now.

But wed put Nox ahead of it on performance, and Genymotion is miles ahead on both performance and features (albeit a lot more expensive).

Weve not seen the same suspicious behaviour when running AndY on macOS and in our opinion this software is fine on this platform, but its something to bear in mind if you find your system behaving oddly.

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