


There is a Google Search bar at the top, two rows of icons, and a bottom dock. It looks like an oversized Android tablet or TV box on your computer screen. Upon first glance, you’ll notice that everything is on a single page and there aren’t very many apps installed. Nox App Player has a very clean interface. You can also enable/disable some window sizing options. If you’re not happy with the way the Nox App Player interface is setting up, you can choose what does and does not appear in the toolbar in the Interface section. If you’re a fan of shortcuts, head over to the Shortcut section to set shortcuts for home, menu, back, recent tasks, zooming in/out, and more. Note: to use more than one CPU you will need to enable VT (Virtualization Technology) on your computer. If you want to use more than one CPU or more memory than the default setting, you can change that here. Under Advanced, you can change the performance settings, startup settings, frame settings, and graphics rendering mode. Under General, you can check for updates, enable the launch of Nox App Player on startup, change the language, clear the cache and more. Personally, though, the first thing I always do is head over to Settings before I actually start to use a program, and Nox App Player has plenty of them.


It shows you what you need to know in order to get started such as the ability to drag and drop APK files, where to find settings, and how to navigate.Īfter you close this out, you’re ready to get started. The “basic features of Nox App Player” diagram that displays after the installation process completes is extremely helpful. The entire process only took a couple minutes. Installation and SetupĪfter being forced to update my graphics card driver (I was going to get to it eventually – promise), I was able to get Nox App Player installed on Windows 7 pretty effortlessly. Here’s a look at how Nox App Player performs on Windows 7. As suspected, I couldn’t get it to run after installation, so I moved over to my Windows install. Considering the fact that Nox App Player is an emulator, I didn’t think that it would work under Wine on Linux, but I tried it anyway. For now, we have Android emulators like Nox App Player to help us play our favorite games and use other apps on a PC.īased on Android 4.4.2, Nox App Player is available for both Windows (XP SP3, 7, 8, 8.1, 10) and macOS Sierra. There’s even some speculation that desktop and mobile operating systems will eventually merge into a single OS. Running Android apps on a desktop or laptop is becoming the new norm these days more and more options are becoming available.
