How to run Android Apps on your Desktop?

What are the features available on android, but absent on Windows or Mac?The first and obvious answer everyone give is: There are many more apps available for the Android operating system than there are for Windows Phone. 

Why would anyone want to run android apps on windows or Mac? Well, suppose you have an app that you really like and there’s no proper desktop equivalent. You can run it on your main computer instead of on your tiny little Android phone. Or, perhaps you’re thinking about buying a tablet, but you’re not sure what apps you’d like.  You can try out many of the free apps. You can play around with those apps on your desktop or laptop and see if you like them before you buy something you may or may not use. It’s pretty great for developers who want to demo their app, but for some reason don’t have access to a PC with the SDK.

Know How...!!!

BlueStacks is essentially a self-contained virtual machine (i.e. you can call it emulator) that runs Android apps on your Windows computer.The biggest appeal is that you don’t have to deal with the Android SDK – or even know what that is, really – and so it’s great for beginners. You can easily install apps available from BlueStacks’s list of free apps, and if you have an Android device, you can install many apps from your device via the Cloud Connect app.

1. Installing BlueStacks:

Installing BlueStacks is quite easy. It is currently available for Windows XP, Vista, 7 as well as Mac OS. Grab it from: http://www.bluestacks.com/ 

Windows 8 users' download @: http://www.bluestacks.com/getyourappsback/index.html

After the program is installed, the installer will ask if you would like to view an introductory video. It’s very short and gives you the basics of how the program works.

BlueStacks installs a desktop gadget that acts as a launcher.

2. Go research the software to learn how it works:

You can move this around and change the opacity like normal gadgets. To open up the launcher, just give this icon a left-click.

You’ll see the list of default installed apps. Click any one to launch it.

You’ll see the app come up like it would on an Android device. Just use the mouse like you would your finger, and if you happen to have a touch-screen, then you’re probably ecstatic.

3. How to add more new apps:

From the BlueStacks Launcher, you can click the Get More Apps link, which will open a browser window pointed to the BlueStacks Channels website.

Login using Google or Facebook accounts and you will see the below page:

Here, you’ll see a 9-digit PIN for use with the Android Cloud Connect app. You can click on the Featured Apps link on the left to browse and subscribe to the free apps available from BlueStacks. Install the app and on your computer, you’ll see a popup in your system tray when the apps have successfully installed.

How to uninstall the apps?

When you go back to the BlueStacks Channels website, you can click on the Cloud Connect link on the left to see which apps you have installed this way. To uninstall an app, just click the Subscribed button. After a little while, the app will be uninstalled from BlueStacks and you’ll see a blue Subscribe button, in case you want to reinstall it.

On the whole, BlueStacks seems like a very easy way to get Android apps working on your desktop, laptop, or even Windows tablet.Use all android apps from WhatsApp to TrueCaller from your PC itself... Thanks to BlueStacks...!!!