The emulator is designed to address a key limitation to Arm-powered Windows devices, which can’t natively run 64-bit Windows apps originally designed for Intel’s and AMD’s x86 architecture.

Devs can create or optimize Android L apps on Intel's 64-bit architecture through a new emulator.

More concentration on hardware Google’s first Android emulator image for 64-bit chips currently only supports x86 processors such as Intel’s Bay Trail, Moorefield, and Merrifield chips.

Windows 10 has been able to emulate 32-bit x86 apps on ARM for a while, along with native 32-bit and 64-bit apps.

Currently, Windows 10 on ARM devices can only run x86 32-bit Windows applications through an emulator. Now Microsoft is expanding the support to x86 64-bit apps.

Microsoft released a Windows Insider preview that allows Windows on Arm laptops like thenSurface Pro X to run the popular 64-bit X86 apps that all modern PCs can.

Back in June, Google announced Android was destined to gain 64-bit support in the coming L release. A few weeks later, Revision 10 of the Native Development Kit (NDK) was posted with support for ...