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BlueStacks' Android App Player for Mac Moves into Beta with Support for All 750,000+ Apps
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why would anyone, ANYONE run android apps on mac?silly, dont see any target group...
People have already listed reasons above you as to why they would want to, perhaps you should read. Also try not to assume that because you don't do something, other people don't either.
Pretty clear to me that is sarcasm, but feel free to continue to jump down their throat.
I agree. And the Moon landing was faked on a sound stage in Arizona as well.
I think this is a cool development. I'd imagine some apps to be tough to use without touch screen, but imagine how handy this would be on a full Windows 8 tablet.
And developers will still develop for iOS as long as that is where the money is. A novelty like this will have literally zero impact.
Apple should be providing emulation for all other systems, including their own older systems:
Apple I
Apple II
Lisa
MacOS Classic
Rosetta
DOS
CPM
Windows
iOS on MacOSX
MacOSX on iOS
There is no reasonable excuse for them to abandon older software. They have the money resources. They have the computing power. By offering complete emulation they would make their hardware and OS the most desirable and would sell more hardware and OSs.
Apple I
Apple II
Lisa
MacOS Classic
Rosetta
DOS
CPM
Windows
iOS on MacOSX
MacOSX on iOS
There is no reasonable excuse for them to abandon older software. They have the money resources. They have the computing power. By offering complete emulation they would make their hardware and OS the most desirable and would sell more hardware and OSs.
How does this compare to an AVD? I find its faster to upload apk's to Dropbox, then download and Install them on an actual android device than to use AVD. (For some reason Eclipse refuses to run on the actual device when it's plugged in... I've spent days trying to figure that out to no avail.)
Technically it is possible in fact the SDK allows this for years now. You can run your new IOS app on theMac to test it. So of course it could be done. But why would Apple want to make it easy to do for the masses?
Looking forward to trying this out. It's a great idea and I hope it works for them.
Hopefully it won't feel like one of those horrible flash apps which are buggy and slow.
People need to look beyond their partisan views on here and realize Apple is not the only ones who can do great tech, Android has some great stuff too.
Hopefully it won't feel like one of those horrible flash apps which are buggy and slow.
People need to look beyond their partisan views on here and realize Apple is not the only ones who can do great tech, Android has some great stuff too.
All of this is available. Except Mac OS X on IOS. (No one would want something that slow.)
Great, now you can run apps designed for touchscreen on your Mac with a mouse and keyboard!
I guess this might be useful on Windows 8 machines to get a quick boost in the apps department.
And to those saying it is just a repackaged Android SDK emulator...no way. That thing runs dog slow on the fastest i7 with gobs of RAM. On my Air it runs like a river of molasses, even just starting it up takes around 6-7 minutes.
I guess this might be useful on Windows 8 machines to get a quick boost in the apps department.
And to those saying it is just a repackaged Android SDK emulator...no way. That thing runs dog slow on the fastest i7 with gobs of RAM. On my Air it runs like a river of molasses, even just starting it up takes around 6-7 minutes.
Given that the app is pulling content from a bunch of different appstores (except Google Play) I'd call that complete rubbish. Google would have zero reason to do this under a shell corporation, and already provide you with the ability to run android apps on Windows and OS X via the Android emulator (which is all this bluestacks app is)
Crappiest software on the planet + best platform on the planet. Gee, what's not to love about that?
Best platform... Muh sides!
Crappiest software on the planet + best platform on the planet. Gee, what's not to love about that?
Go home and stop trying to be a naughty little troll
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When you run your app during development, it's compiled as x86. When you send it off to the appstore its ARM6/7 only. So the appstore versions wont (ever) work natively under OS X whilst its x86. You'd need to recompile absolutely every app, or provide an emulator to emulate an ARM process.
Look at the app - go into the app's contents and have a poke around.
It's an emulator.
Put it this way. It'd be IMPOSSIBLE for Android (or iOS) apps to run on OS X (an x86 system) without an emulator to convert the arm compiled app.
It's an android emulator - it takes seconds to figure that out....it's not really even that well hidden.
