What you get if an Android wife Windows? The answer: BlueStacks. The San Francisco of the same name announced a technology that will allow users to run Android applications on Windows devices x 86, alongside Windows applications.
This allows growing quickly mobile applications Android - and the data created within their - to be used on all platforms.
Store from Amazon, not by Google
With BlueStacks, a user can run Android and Windows applications at the same time on Windows machines. The company said the switch can be accomplished in a second, with no restart required, and these two types of applications can run at the same time. BlueStacks can be configured to run Android on a connected laptop and Windows on an external monitor, or vice versa.
Data, including photos and video, may be shared between the two types of applications. There is also the functional integration between them. For example, a user can print through Windows of the Interior an Android application, or create a shortcut in Windows for an Android application.
The company is directing users to download free and paid apps app store by Amazon.com, or small shops such as GetJar and SlideMe applications. Instead of Google's Android market, these outlets are chosen because of the focus of Google on mobile devices powered by the arm.
For the companies, BlueStacks said that its technology makes life easier because, as the app Android population grows giant, and as personal company get on Android smartphones, computer services will not need to invest in new hardware on the desktop to enjoy Android.
Not "an earthquake thing".
BlueStacks also said that technology allows it departments to manage security and other aspects on machines without Windows in place a structure of separate security for Android. In addition, BlueStacks allows Android apps to be deployed and managed via a Citrix or Microsoft enterprise infrastructure.
Price has not been specified, and the company said that it is in talks with a variety of OEMs for integration with their products.
Al Hilwa, Director of the programme for the development of applications at IDC, said BlueStacks could be "one more thing" to do on a Windows machine, but he emphasized that "this is not a thing of earthquakes."
He noted that several Android apps are designed for touch, while Windows, which can support touch, is not currently designed specifically for this type of interaction. For mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, he said, he y features integrated GPS and accelerators that would be useless on a Windows laptop.
Hilwa also questioned what would be the motive for the user to pay for BlueStacks, although he said he could not see OEM adding in the "framework of control of their product list," to stand.
BlueStacks is led by CEO Rosen Sharma, whose previous role was as SVP and CTO of innovation at McAfee. It is backed by ignition Ventures, partners of Radar, Helion Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
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