How To Run Android Apps on Your Windows PC

[orb9220]

Don't think I've seen this before and thought to share. As was looking for a stand alone desktop Pulse appilication.

How To Run Android Apps on Your Windows PC

Thought to share as looks promising? Any users out there that gave it a whirl?

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[roustabout]

Do check out flipboard also - I really like it, and never liked Pulse better than the caching rss reader, newsrob

[5ivedom]

Yes. It's quite good. Some rough edges but good.

Problem is that it's like using a website on a Tablet that isn't optimized for the tablet i.e.

most Android Apps aren't optimized for PCs.

Even though I have a touchscreen PC the experience wasn't very great.

*****

It's commendable that they've done it. It's still in the 'not quite sure there's a market need for it' category.

[roustabout]

Unfortunately for me, Bluestacks won't run on my laptop.  I'd have liked Flipboard to be available on it - the nav in flipboard is simple enough that I'd thought it would work reasonably well.  

But after installing, the app just hangs at loading.  

fwiw, this is an i5 2520m so the chip supports hardware virtualization and perhaps that's making trouble for Bluestacks - the virtualization support is looking to support x86 and Bluestacks is trying to virtualize ARM. 

[5ivedom]

What Operating System are you on?

If you're on Windows 7 you can right click on the Blue Stacks icon and then try two things:

1) Click 'Troubleshoot Compatibility' to let Windows try and figure things out.

2) Click 'Properties' and then click on 'Compatibility' tab and then choose 'Run this Program in compatibility mode for: X

You could also try to run the program as Administrator mode, but that's probably not the cause of the problem.