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Have you ever wanted to run Android apps on your Windows 7 desktop,laptop or tablet? Even just to try them out or play around with them? Well now you can thanks to a new program released today from BlueStacks. It’s called the BlueStacks App player and has just hit the Alpha stage of development. It’s taken 10 engineers 2 years to get the project this far. The basic player lets you run several preloaded Android apps and then install up to 26 others, as well as sync apps from an Android phone to your PC.
Some people have reported that the app doesn’t always work first time around, but eventually once you get it installed it places an Android Gadget on your desktop. Clicking on the gadget opens up a menu from which you can launch an array of the pre loaded Android apps, including Bloomberg News, Drag Racing, Talking Tom 2 and Alchemy amongst others.
The applications can run in full screen using a new type of virtualization technology. Of course, the problem with running Android apps on your desktop is that they’ve all been optimised for use on touch based devices, so unless your running Windows 7 with touchscreen, you’re going to find it a bit tricky using a mouse and keyboard. While the app is currently limited to just 26 apps, the company hopes to lift it in the future with a premium version, which will also allow for the installation of premium games like Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja and Dungeon Hunter 2, as well as apps which have been designed to run on ARM based devices.

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For now the app is only available on Windows, but they are working on an app for OS X as well


This is really a great little app and if it continues to develop I think you’ll find it’ll take off. Developers will be keen to get their apps in it as it will open up the whole Windows market for Android developers, it will also be especially good if they can get it working on Windows 8 as well which will probably find itself on a larger number of touch enabled devices.
It just goes to show, that by having an open OS like Android and Windows, developers really can do anything that they want.