BlueStacks App Player allows you to enjoy the latest app releases of Android on Windows machines, using the comfort of your large screen or faster hardware compared to your phone.
BlueStacks has been released as an alpha, to have those on Windows 7 try apps from their Android phone on a PC using BlueStacks Cloud Connect. Ten pre-loaded apps are available upon downloading BlueStacks, allowing you to trying Android on Windows 7 netbooks, tablets, laptops, and PCs. The alpha stages allow up to 26 more apps to be installed, with more to follow in the future.
Upon installation, an Android gadget is placed on your desktop, where you can launch apps from Words With Friends to Pulse News. BlueStacks displays Android on Windows, in virtualized and full-screen glory, bringing your apps to dimensions unlike before.
Company CEO and co-founder Rosen Sharma, previously McAfee's chief technology officer, said he got the idea from his daughter: 'She went to a Netbook, and she wanted the same apps on it.'
Not until BlueStacks were you able to run phone apps normally for Android on Windows devices. Numerous HTC, Samsung, and other Android users may have a two way portal, flawlessly syncing apps to PCs. Sending apps from your phone to PC requires the BlueStacks Cloud Connect App from the Android Market. You will be given a unique pin number to connect devices and allow you to sync apps accordingly.
'Developers have an opportunity here, as BlueStacks touts, because the App Player opens up Android space to over a billion PC users, and it does not require any additional work because the apps can run unmodified on the Windows PC,' according to a ZDNet article.
In a market that is hot for Apple, Google may push more developments like BlueStacks. Android on Windows may provide Google an unexpected boost in users previously on devices without the Android OS.
