Have Android Apps effortlessly run on your computer – TrustedReviews

probably using more apps on your smartphone than your programs Windows uses in a day. Many of these apps have taken a permanent place in your life. Would not it be handy if you could run them and not just on your smartphone or tablet? On your PC With Android that is possible. In this expert course, we show you how you can run Android apps on your PC in two ways: in virtualized Windows or even as a separate operating system

Why

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But why would you want to run Android apps on your PC? On the one hand, you might have used those apps and want to run them conveniently on all your devices. Other hand, a PC is also one big advantage: you have a larger screen. Your favorite Android games look their on your PC a lot more impressive. And your PC may be connected to your home stereo, so the sound is more impressive than what comes out of your smartphone.

Something both an advantage and a disadvantage can be, moreover, the difference in input devices . Do not have a touch screen PC, you have to control your Android apps with the mouse, which is not always logical. On the other hand you have on your PC access to a keyboard, which makes text entry more apps that require a lot to handle faster.

BlueStacks, with its App Player virtualization software to run Android apps on Windows

Part 1:. Virtualize

In this first part, we show how you can run Android apps. in a virtual machine on Windows We do this with virtualization software BlueStacks. So you can continue to use. Android apps at once with your Windows apps

01 BlueStacks App Player

A beta version of the BlueStacks App Player (program at the time of writing based on Android 4.0.4) on the website of BlueStacks free download and supports Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 on the homepage, click on the green download button. Run the installer and click Continue . Click Next . Make sure that in the next window App store access and App Notifications ticked. If you are interested, you let Subscribe to Spotlight are checked: you will get daily free apps proposed. But Spotlight is quite pushy.

The installation of BlueStacks is simple.

After installation, the BlueStacks Player automatically starts. You get to see. A type of home screen This is already clear that it is not the usual Android goes. The App Player has its own interface, only to give up your apps you access. So you can see the top apps recently performed, including popular apps, including the apps Spotlight offers today and under many categories. Below left you have the three buttons that you’re used to from Android to go to go to the Home screen and apps to view the recently executed. Right you see the clock, that gives you access to the messages and settings. Then you have a button for social media (which lets you take a screenshot and shares) and next come the buttons to switch to full screen mode and exit to BlueStacks

Het homescreen of BlueStacks App Player lets you access your apps.

to the settings you see that it is not a standard Android installation. The possibilities are much less extensive. At one time the App Player will incidentally show with the message that you get the App Store and App Sync best turn a window. Click Continue . Then add your Google Account. After that is done, log into your account in order to turn. App Sync From now on you apps in BlueStacks App Player installed from the Play Store. That can easily through the home screen, press Search clicking and typing a search term.

Na adding your Google account, you can install all kinds of apps from Google Play in BlueStacks.

Other virtualization software

There are still a lot of similar solutions BlueStacks App Player, but they are not as well known as they are often not as complete or not so stable. However, it may be helpful to view them as the solution of BlueStacks does not work on all computers as stable. Genymotion is a popular alternative. It provides a more recent Android version (4.4) and is intended primarily for developers of Android apps that want to simulate different devices but it is perfectly usable to just Android apps to run on Windows.

Genymotion runs as a virtual machine in VirtualBox. Formerly also YouWave and Windroy were popular, but now that offer old Android versions. What you can always do also download the official Android SDK from Google. In the SDK Manager, you create a virtual Android device that you can start and where you can install apps.