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How to run a .exe on Android

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totomacko1 Posted messages 121 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
ElementW Posted messages 5690 Status Contributor -
Hello,

I would like to launch a game that does not require any installation on Android. To be launched, the game has an .exe file accompanied by a few other files.
I've searched a bit and I see that Android can in no way read .exe files.
Moreover, conversion to Android format is impossible because the programming is too different. So I was wondering if emulation is not impossible...
We can easily read a .gba file with an emulator, so why not a .exe :)
Thank you

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    monday1999 Posted messages 773 Status Member 83
     
    Hello,
    It's not possible, Android reads .APK files but not .EXE

    Sincerely, Monday!
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    1. totomacko1 Posted messages 121 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   23
       
      I would actually like to know if an emulator could do it :)
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    2. monday1999 Posted messages 773 Status Member 83
       
      I don't think so, and the applications are downloaded in .apk.
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    3. ElementW Posted messages 5690 Status Contributor 1 293
       
      .APK and .EXE, which incidentally have... absolutely nothing in common. Neither the programming language used, nor the targeted CPU architecture, nor the APIs used, nor even the file format. 2 totally different worlds. So clearly incompatible, although it seems to me that Wine has been ported to it, but it is over-experimental and was tested during a presentation... only on the SDK emulator, without KVM/HAXM acceleration or any optimizations.
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