Android Emulator for PC?

Is there an Emulator so that I can run android apps to see how they work and is that even possible?

Basically there's a couple programs I wanna see for the phone but being that I don't have the phone yet I wanted to check out the programs for now

Yup.  Been talked about before.

There's one in the developer's kit (SDK) from google's android website.

Yup.  Been talked about before.

There's one in the developer's kit (SDK) from google's android website.

how do you run apps on it though without having the source files?

That's beyond me, I'm afraid.  I never played with the emulator much after the 10 minute load time 

you can only run .apk apps downloaded from the internet. you CAN NOT run apps from the marketplace unless they're up for download as an apk somewhere else

Here's the link in case anyone wants to grab it:

http://code.google.com/android/download.html

i've downloaded the emulator and the apk files but how do i get the emulator to recognize the apk files?

i've downloaded the emulator and the apk files but how do i get the emulator to recognize the apk files?

That I don't know.  I would look for you, but I'm tired tonight.  Read through the emulator guide and see if you can find it.  There's a lot of great info here as well.

http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html