{"id":313,"date":"2012-04-04T18:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/?p=313"},"modified":"2012-04-04T18:14:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:14:05","slug":"bluestacks-player-runs-android-apps-on-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/bluestacks-player-runs-android-apps-on-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Run Android apps on your PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Run your Android apps on your PC with Bluestacks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-315\" title=\"ABSpace3_610x343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ABSpace3_610x343.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bluestacks.com\/\">BlueStacks app player<\/a>\u00a0for running\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bluestacks.com\/\">Android<\/a>\u00a0apps on Windows has taken a major step forward today with the release of its first beta, which can run even graphics-intensive Android apps on desktop PCs.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bluestacks.com\/\">BlueStacks beta (download)<\/a>\u00a0leverages a new, patent-pending technology that the company has developed called LayerCake, which does two things necessary for running Android apps on Windows. First, it powers the app on hardware that it wasn&#8217;t originally intended to run on. That&#8217;s basically the ARM to x86 conversion which runs the apps, and it comes with the blessing of one of AMD&#8217;s head honchos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LayerCake is a disruptive technology that enables PC manufacturers to bring the best of the Android ecosystem to their customers. We are excited to work with BlueStacks to make the emerging Android mobile apps market part of the broader computing arena,&#8221; Manju Hegde, corporate vice president, Content, Applications and Solutions at AMD, said in BlueStacks&#8217; statement announcing the new beta.<\/p>\n<p>LayerCake also includes hardware graphics acceleration that wasn&#8217;t available in last year&#8217;s BlueStacks alpha. This means that it uses your PC&#8217;s graphics card to make graphics-intensive apps, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/developer.android.com\/sdk\/ndk\/overview.html\">Android NDK games<\/a>\u00a0like Air Attack HD, run more smoothly:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-314\" title=\"Air_Attack_HD_610x343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Air_Attack_HD_610x343.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Air_Attack_HD_610x343.png 610w, https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Air_Attack_HD_610x343-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Run your Android apps on your PC with Bluestacks The\u00a0BlueStacks app player\u00a0for running\u00a0Android\u00a0apps on Windows has taken a major step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrobe.com\/mike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}