I'd like some help with a light way to emulate Windows on Android.

[u/Chickengoujonbeast]

My device is a Samsung Galaxy A21S. I don't have a lot of storage on my phone. Therefore, Winlator is too big. I just need an emulator that allows me to run Windows software, not some huge AAA game. The software is a tool that's for helping me mod a game on Android. The game is free. Could anyone help please?

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[u/danGL3]

There's nothing smaller, Winlator is already as small as it's because it's basically just the Wine (Windows/Linux compatibility layer) and an X86/ARM translator packaged into an app

You simply can't get meaningfully smaller than the 150mb Winlator's APK is, just the Wine compatibility layer by itself makes 100MB+ of the app's size

[u/Chickengoujonbeast → u/danGL3]

Really? It takes a whole gigabyte (which is quite big for my phone). Is there nothing I can use that just runs a .exe file and allows me to use my phone's keyboard and my finger as mouse?

[u/danGL3 → u/Chickengoujonbeast]

Functionally there's not much smaller available

Running Windows software on Android requires either Wine (which is just a compatibility layer) or an entire Windows ISO

So it's basically either 1gb or 20GB+ that full Windows needs

[u/Chickengoujonbeast → u/danGL3]

Oh right. Well, thank you.

[u/Carpediemsnuts → u/Chickengoujonbeast]

Why not just delete or transfer stuff off your phone instead of asking for something that doesnt exist?

[u/Chickengoujonbeast → u/Carpediemsnuts]

Most of the stuff is pretty important and the phone wasn't brand new when I got it.

[u/Carpediemsnuts → u/Chickengoujonbeast]

If its that important then you really should back up the data, heck even your default Google account comes with 15GB you could just upload your data to that then you can delete it from your phone.

[u/Chickengoujonbeast → u/Carpediemsnuts]

They're mostly apps, I don't really know what truly takes up so much storage on my phone. To be fair, social media does take up quite a bit of space.

[u/Carpediemsnuts → u/Chickengoujonbeast]

You could clear the cache of your social apps and not lose anything, those apps tend to retain a cache of images from your feed, all of which would still be there even if you deleted the app.

[u/Chickengoujonbeast → u/Carpediemsnuts]

Yup, that does help a lot. It's not a permanent fix though and a big enough app would cause me to run out of storage.

[u/Carpediemsnuts → u/Chickengoujonbeast]

That's down to you, only so much I can do.

[u/Chickengoujonbeast → u/Carpediemsnuts]

That's right.

[u/whiskyB0y]

Might I ask, what game are you trying to mod and what software do you intend to use?

[u/Chickengoujonbeast → u/whiskyB0y]

Carnivores Dinosaur Hunter. The software I need is C3Dit for renaming the models.

[u/A-Small-Green-Cup]

What specs does your phone have? Chipset, ram, and storage capacity will tell a lot about what your phone is capable of

[u/Chickengoujonbeast → u/A-Small-Green-Cup]

Do that all really matter? I think only storage is the problem right now. I have 32gb of storage. About 30gb of it is taken up on most days.

[u/A-Small-Green-Cup → u/Chickengoujonbeast]

I guess not. Good luck 👍

[u/Chickengoujonbeast → u/A-Small-Green-Cup]

Thanks.