ARM Translation on Genymotion

ARM translation and Google app for playing Android games. Now, I can understand that Google app is needed for getting the play store. But I am still in the dark about the 'ARM translation'. Why is it needed? what does it do? what happens if I don't use the ARM translation? And lastly, what does ARM stands for?

ARM is a processor architecture, you can read more about it here.

Android apps are sometimes designed with X86 architecture and sometimes with ARM. You have to install the ARM translation in order to install on your emulator apps that use ARM architecture.

It's not a must have, but a lot of apps won't work without it.

Android games generally make use of OpenGL ES which is built from the ground up to work specifically with an ARM SoC. The Android NDK itself allows game developers to optimize their software by using C/C++ and even ARM assembly code.

The GenyMotion emulators are designed to work around an Intel x86 / x64 architecture, which is why they are faster than the Android emulators. But because of that, and because they have now decided to forgo ARM translation, they cannot run games.

A standard Android emulator actually compiles Java source to dex, and dex to ARM assembly, and these ARM instructions are run on an ARM emulation called QEMU. This makes the Android emulator incredibly slow, as it is in effect running an emulation of an ARM processor on top of an Intel-Windows machine. But it is able to run games.

The Android emulators emulate, while GenyMotion is more effectively a simulation.

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