[bitek]

It is called BlueStacks and Android is just flying on my PC.

Run Mobile Apps on Windows PC or Mac with BlueStacks | Android App Player

Insane technology. Android apps are just flying on my pc. They look bad on 21" monitor but 13" must look so much better. Compatible with windows 8 meaning all touch. Now I am tempted to get Windows 8 Tablet. Surface with this app is just crazy. google must be very "happy" about popularity of Android.

[notfanboy]

It did not get copied from the Playbook. This tech has been around before the PB had the Android player.

[03_CTD]

Plus the PlayBook native Android player doesn't provide full access to Google Play. However, I noticed you edited your post and removed that statement. Does this not allow access to Play either?

[greatwiseone]

It's a bit clunky. It's basically dumping the Android environment in a container on Windows.

[silversun10]

so where is the Apple apps player/converter?

[TheScionicMan]

Compatible with Windows 8... RT too or just Pro?

[dbmalloy]

Does work.... have had it quite some time on my PC.... sufferes the same problem game emulators have on the Playbook... can be very difficult to control the game..... \

[bitek]

Does work.... have had it quite some time on my PC.... sufferes the same problem game emulators have on the Playbook... can be very difficult to control the game..... \

true. I just tried zombiewood and it is not working. cool idea though. flipboard works great ...

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[Andrew4life]

Just like how there used to be VisualBoyAdvanced emulator for Gameboy games, etc. And the SNES Emulator, and N64 Emulator, etc etc etc. It's just an emulator for Android Apps.

[gxgs]

Compatible with Windows 8... RT too or just Pro?

x86 architecture. Bluestacks has been around for more than a year already. Its not a copy of the playbook, its basically the android OS completely virtualized, not on a per-app basis, the entire system. You can even root it and have access to google apps.

[tharrison4815]

Android will run natively on x86 now anyway, is this even needed anymore?

[bitek]

x86 architecture. Bluestacks has been around for more than a year already. Its not a copy of the playbook, its basically the android OS completely virtualized, not on a per-app basis, the entire system. You can even root it and have access to google apps.

how is this different than android player on playbook ?

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