Easiest Windows Android Emulator For Particular Application

[gil_happy]

Hello,
I am trying to determine the simplest and easiest to install Windows Android emulator for my particular application. My parents don't have a smartphone, but they recently purchased a smartplug for one their electrical heaters, and the only way to remotely control the smartplug is via an app (the smartplug does not have a way to control via web browser).

After looking at the following list (https://www.androidauthority.com/best-android-emulators-for-pc-655308/), many of these are for people who want to play Android games on a PC (which is overkill for what I need). I am try to determine which of these is easiest to use and install for our simple application? I will send my parents the instructions to set up on their Windows 10 PC after I first test on my PC.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

[Dannydet]

Bluestacks?
It's not just for games...

 

[gil_happy]

Bluestacks?
It's not just for games...

Thank you for this... I keep hearing conflicting things about Bluestacks, hence my hesitancy to try it.

 

[gil_happy]

Actually, I have installed Genymotion and it is 'fairly' easy to install and it works great. When I tried to install Bluestacks, my virus software alerted me to at least one or two things it didn't like (I'm not saying they were viruses, but probably something in the background it doesn't like).

 

[mikedt]

Actually, I have installed Genymotion and it is 'fairly' easy to install and it works great. When I tried to install Bluestacks, my virus software alerted me to at least one or two things it didn't like (I'm not saying they were viruses, but probably something in the background it doesn't like).

That could have been Bluestacks phoning home data to its servers in China.