There are thousands of great Android apps out there to download for your smartphone or tablet, but did you ever wish you could run them on Windows or OSX?
Well now you’re in luck. A free beta app called BlueStacks allows you to run the whole Android Market on your computer, install apps and use them as you would on your mobile device.
Now remember this app is in beta form and is by no means perfect but is really handy to have. I have just installed TuneIn Radio and Instagram which work really well.
Both versions of the beta software are available right now for download using the links below.
Just a word of warning though, expect a long waiting time when first running the software on your computer as it takes a while to setup everything needed.
Links – Windows – OSX – BlueStacks
How legal is this? Do bluestacks have authorisation to access the android market?
Slow news day? James Pearce already posted about this back in March and again in September.
Slow commenting day?
the Mac beta has just been made available
Hi Dan, how secure do you think this is? Do you have to log in with your Google account? Or can you just download all the free apps?
I like the idea as getting a netbook and it would be cool to have access to all my android stuff. Are they hoping Google will buy them to expand there universe
Tried the Mac beta. You can’t download any app, you can’t log into your google account and it basically doesn’t work.
Just googled it and at cnet the comments say some have struggled to remove the software once installed
A good app this… used from the start….for any one with doubts look at the backers etc…. big names like amd are in there.
im only wondering how much longer this will be beta…..
T
The windows version has worked well, what I really want though is a WP8 version.
I wonder if I could play temple run and hook my controller to it so that I can move the guy around with my controller, that would be fricken cool.