Updated on: September 2nd, 2024
How to play Android games or run apps on Apple M1 Macbook. Read on for “Android Emulator for Apple M1 Chip”[November 2024].
Best Android Emulators To Play Android Games On Apple M1 Macbook
As of [November 2024], there are no Android Emulators available for the Apple M1 chip Macbook to play Android games. To run apps, you can try Android Studio by Google. You can get it for free on the official website.
NOTE: Bluestacks for Apple M1 Chip is currently not available. Even if you install Parallels, it will not work. You will be getting an error if you try to run it;
Your machine has new Apple Silicon processor which is currently not supported by BlueStacks.
If You Want To Run Android Apps On Apple M1 Chip Mac, You Can Try Android Studio
Android Studio is primarily used for developing Android apps and comes with an in-build Android Emulator to allow developers to test their apps before releasing them to the public. You can get it for free on the official website.
It is not suitable for playing games.
Conclusion
Several articles on the web list many Emulators, such as LD Player, Nox, Memu, etc., compatible with M1 Chip Mac, but none of them would work; in fact, some of these emulators are only available on Windows.
As of now, you can play Android games on Apple M1 Chip Mac only by using Blustacks X(https://x.bluestacks.com/#/cloudGames).
We will update the article once any Android Emulator is released for Apple M1 Chip Mac.
If you have an older version of a Mac or an Intel-powered Mac, you can try Bluestacks. Bluestacks is currently the best Android Emulator available on Mac. It allows you to play almost all Android games available on the Google Play Store, such as Call of Duty, PUBG New State, Raid Shadow Legends, etc.
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There is one now: https://mumu.163.com/mac/It runs android 12, only support apple silicon, and does not support intel mac.
But it is paid, with 7 days free trial.
I found Genymotion is working on apple silicon mac since months ago. It uses QEMU and supports only Android 11, but it’s working. Though maybe you will think it’s not for “gaming”, but you can play games on it if you like.
My hero 🥸
The programs don’t work.
Currently, no Android Emulator is not available for playing Android games.
You can try Bluestacks X and play Android games on Cloud.
To run apps, try Android Studio.
THIS ARTICLE CONTRADICTS ITSELF OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Either you can or you can’t. Yet, you claim one, then the other, the the first one again, then the other again. You seem to have a problem making up your mind if it is possible or not.
You can play Android games on M1 Mac via Bluestacks X. And run apps with Android Studio. The Android Emulator for playing Android games is not available, though.
So true, I have been subscribing to emulator in m1 news
This is the truth. Google should not introduce fake articles for earning money via ads.
Android Studio works great on my m1 Mac mini.
Thank you for posting the truth about the current state of support for Android emulators on Apple M1/M2 systems. Too much disinformation out there.
not even bluestacks works 🙁
THANK YOU!!!
Finally, someone’s telling the truth.
“Several articles on the web list many Emulators, such as LD Player, Nox, Memu, etc., compatible with M1 Chip Mac, but none of them would work; in fact, some of these emulators are only available on Windows.”
You are right.
They are liars.
for real man i been trying this for about 4 mount
M1 are ARM processors. You don’t need an emulator but virtualization. Android Studio does this and it works perfectly.