


Now you can wirelessly access your Android phone from your PC, and even pin Android apps to your Windows taskbar, and launch them individually. Now use your Android app to screen to scan the QR code that’s displayed on your PC, to link the devices. On your PC, select the “Pair with QR code” button. Next, sign in to the companion app with the same Microsoft account that you’re signed in to on your PC. To do this, open a web browser on your Android device and then enter the link that’s displayed on your PC. You’ll be asked to sign in to your Microsoft account, and then prompted to install or open the companion app on your Android device. If you start from your Android phone, select this from the list of phone models. If you start from your PC, in the search box on the taskbar, type the words “your phone,” and then click or tap to launch the app. It’s a bit more of a headache to set up and its performance isn’t as good as Bluestacks, but it does let PC users wirelessly access apps on your nearby smartphone – so long as both devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. How to run Android apps on your computer using Your Phone appĪ second way to access Android apps and games on a Windows PC is to launch the Your Phone app, which is already built into Windows 10 (and on many Samsung Galaxy smartphones, there’s a preinstalled Link to Windows app, which can also work). Now you can debug your application in the Visual Studio Emulator – which is pretty good. Now run your project, and select the VS Emulator, ignoring the invitation to “Turn off Hyper-V”: Then, in Android Studio, go to Run – Edit Configurations and select Show Device Chooser Dialog under Deployment Target Options.

In order to use this with Android Studio, you need to run the emulator first. The solution (if you do not want to disable Hyper-V) is to use Microsoft’s Android emulator, which is a free download here. It is not only that you can’t run Hyper-V and HAXM simultaneously the PC has to be configured at boot to use one or the other. The problem is that Google’s Android emulator uses Intel’s HAXM (Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager) which uses the same CPU virtualization extensions as Hyper-V. If you run Windows and use the Hyper-V hypervisor, which is used by Visual Studio as well as being handy for testing stuff in virtual machines, then you will encounter an annoyance if you go on to install Android Studio, Google’s official IDE for Android. Microsoft has announced a better solution, if you are on the latest Windows 10 April 2018 Update or later, and you can now use the official Android emulator with Hyper-V. Update: This post is out of date you may still be able to get it to work but there are stability issues with the emulator.
