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Running certain Android apps on your desktop is nothing new with Bluestacks, but now you can get the whole dang OS running on your PC as a native application thanks to a little program called WindowsAndroid.
Developed by a start-up in Bejing called SocketeQ, WindowsAndroid not only lets you mess with Android apps on your computer, but emulate an entire 4.0 ICS device on there, complete with all the settings and everything else. It’s available for download from SocketeQ’s site, if you’ll give them your email address and—as you should be able to guess—it runs on Windows Vista, 7, and 8 exclusively.
WindowsAndroid will also make good use of the computer it’s running on. It supports big resolutions, cranks up performance using your PC’s guts, and can make use of your mouse and keyboard in addition to a touchscreen monitor if you have one. You can also side-load apps by dropping the .apks in the right folder. But for the moment, that’s the only reliable way to get fun stuff on it, because Google Play doesn’t recognize the hardware.
The project started as an experiment with Android 2.1 and 2.3 and only just recently hopped up to 4.0. The team is currently working on Jelly Bean too, but there’s no telling when that might come. In the meantime, WindowsAndroid is a neat little application, if young and doubtlessly buggy. Surface Pro running Android, anyone?
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still waiting for my email
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390288116658471029
After I completed the form I got a strange certificate downloaded to my pc that tried to redirect my hotmail server to a different domain.
Hmmmm.
Is there anything that differentiates this from Androidx86, Jar of Beans and the 1204489 other x86 distributions of Android? As far as I know, Jar of Beans is just this with Jelly Bean.
My comment is awaiting moderation? What blasphemy is this?
I downloaded it to play Android games on my PC but no app support
You need to install a ARM emulator in android to get apps to work.
Unfortunately, unlike BlueStack, this doesn’t seem support Google Play (yet) but very interesting nevertheless. Google Play reads BlueStacks as a Samsung Galaxy SII running Gingerbread so you can quickly replace the launcher and uninstall all the crap default BlueStack apps.
Is there any way to get the Play store working properly? All apps I try to download say ‘incompatible with this device’. I’ve tried editing the build.prop to mimic a Nexus 10 and an S3 but still no joy…
Try connecting AirDroid to the pc and then saving the apps apk from your device on the pc and installing it from there. The accept apps from unknown sources option might need to be active. I have not tried this yet but it might work.