Hey there, I've been using Bluestacks as my main android emulator for a while, but I disliked how bloated it is, especially that their cloud service app comes preinstalled.
Im wondering if there are other android emulators that are good to use. I've already heard about emulators such as:
I haven't actually tried most of these myself yet since I don't quite trust them. They are quite sketchy and heavily advertised
Windows subsystem for android with magisk for root
For Linux there is waydroid which is inspired from the defunct anbox which I used in the past but it is wayland only
The ones in the thumbnail for the link look like they are from sketchy companies that sell your data
And also since when is Google play games an emulator
Waydroid works quite well for me, but it's Linux+Wayland only.
I think you should be able to install the Play Store and Play Services on Windows Android Subsystem, there's probably guides on how to do that but I've never tried myself. I think it uses Windows Subsystem for Linux in under the hood so I imagine it's probably possible to root it/install additional stuff to it.
Waydroid, by far the best solution
The only one I ever used was nox to play some games and it was very unpleasant
I use the MSI App Player (pretty sure that's the name). I think it is built off Blue Stacks and it has some bloat still, nothing that isn't too manageable but I'll like to see other people's opinions.
It's not hard to make WSA to accept every apk you want qith Google Services etc. There are many guides online, @me if you can't find one that works for you
android x86 and qemu is pretty good
As people said here already, I prefer Windows subsystem for Android. It’s built-in and fairly robust.
I personally use bluestacks.
You can try to debloat Nox. https://gist.github.com/Log1x/12d330ef7685d6fbc611d1d57efb5c29
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