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In fact, if you have qemu-user-static installed and binfmt configured properly, it will likely just work.

I intended to write the same in reponse to some other comment. But then I got unsure. It would only work if Android has no native ABIs to the system at all. On a Gnu/Linux system you would need a libc in the emulated architecture at least. Applications won't typically bring their own. I have never not looked at Android development, so no idea whether such ABI exist or whether all APIs are Java.

Quite a lot of stuff from the Play Store has an x86 version, because then they get users on Chromebooks.

wut? most chromebooks are arm

nope! These days a heck of a lot are a lower-power Intel chip or an AMD chip. They're just very slightly weird PCs.

Makes sense, thanks.