A good android distribution to use as a VM other than android-x86?

Android@lemdro.id – 50 points – 11 months ago

For all my needs of temporary android devices, I use a temporary VM instead. where I install android-x86. Now I am looking for alternatives to this distro. It is a bit slow to use and now dated. Still on android 9.

Any recommendation that are FLOSS? A guide how to install Lineage OS on QEmu or KVM is also a good alternative.

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My use case it to simulate a burner phones to bypass app only subscriptions. I run there applications I don't trust to run on my own phone and would not afford to buy the a new phone for everything.

Brilliant! I'm stealing that idea. I love it when I learn useful tricks!

Also good for banks in case you lose your phone

Well, if I'm on my laptop, I just use the browser. It's much easier, and they don't sqawk at me because it is "rooted" - even though it has always been rooted.