BlueStacks isn't the first to try and port Android to another OS. But BlueStacks has taken the open source OS and built a native x86 Android runtime environment that it says will perform as well on a Windows machine as any Windows app. Of course, Android apps have been able to run on Windows through emulation for quite some time, with all the performance degradation that entails. Android applications can run in Windows and be launched by shortcuts, just like a Windows app. The software supports mouse and keyboard input, as well as multi-touch input.

Android apps can appear either as an icon on the Windows desktop, or within a full Android environment. BlueStacks runs Android in an 圆4 hypervisor.

Eventually, the company intends to have a runtime version available directly to end users, too, although it is first selling its wares only to OEMs.īlueStacks is the power behind the dual-boot ViewSonic ViewPad 10 Pro, which features Windows 7 and Android. Users will also soon be able to get BlueStacks on other devices. But that's merely the news that gained BlueStacks instant celebrity status. A beta version of the BlueStacks feature is slated to be available with Receiver around the third quarter. company was thrown into the spotlight this week when Citrix announced during its Synergy 2011 user conference that it would be embedding BlueStacks into its desktop virtualization software, Citrix Receiver. Start-up BlueStacks has emerged from stealth mode to wow the world with software that lets Windows PCs dual boot with Android.

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