The application icons are organized in a three-by-three grid displayed on pages that you can flip through by clicking right- and left-arrow icons. When the gadget is clicked, it pops up a menu that provides access to various Android applications and other BlueStacks functionality. The installer placed a gadget on the desktop that depicts the Android robot mascot standing on the Windows logo. It installed successfully without any problems on my second attempt. During my initial attempt to set up the software, the installer reported failure and terminated. I installed the Android Player on an HP desktop computer with a six-core Intel i7 CPU and 16GB of RAM. We tried out the BlueStacks Android Player ourselves and tested it with several different Android applications. As BlueStacks promised, the software allows users to run Android mobile applications on a Windows computer without compromising performance.Īlthough the software still has the kind of rough edges that one would expect from an alpha release, it represents an impressive technical feat and could offer value in a number of different contexts. The company finally released the product for public alpha testing this morning. Earlier this year, a startup called BlueStacks announced that it was developing a native x86 Android runtime for the Windows operating system.

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