Is Android an emulator?

An Android emulator is an Android Virtual Device (AVD) that represents a specific Android device . You can use an Android emulator as a target platform to run and test your Android applications on your PC. Using Android emulators is optional.

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Can we run emulator without Android Studio?

Download and install Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM) (you also need to switch off Hyper-V feature and enable Virtualization in BIOS for successful installation). Download Command-Line-Tools: Go to Downloads page , scroll down to “Command line tools only” section and download the archive with tools.

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