However, resizing the window to full-screen mode required restarting the Angry Birds application. Angry Bird Space, the latest iteration of the game, was released last week and ran on the PC through Bluestacks. The software installed without any issues on Windows XP, and on start provided the option to download software from Google's Android application market. The Bluestacks app is 3.6MB and can be downloaded from the company's website. Android applications typically use hardware accelerators found in ARM's Mali, Nvidia's Tegra, and Imagination Technologies' PowerVR graphics cores, but Layercake can take advantage of hardware accelerators found in x86 chips from companies like AMD.

The layer was not included in the Bluestacks alpha version. The emulator has new Layercake technology, which exploits hardware accelerators to improve the performance of Android games in Windows. Android applications are mostly written for the ARM instruction set, but the x86 tablet was able to switch between Android and Windows without any problems.

Bluestacks made headlines at last year's Computex trade show in Taipei when Advanced Micro Devices showed off an x86 tablet with Android running on top of the Windows 7 software stack. Users can install the software in Windows and then run about 450,000 Android applications, including Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja, the company said.īeyond PCs, the App Player could also allow Windows tablets such as Hewlett-Packard's Slate 2 and Dell's Latitude ST to run Android applications.

Software company Bluestacks is trying to close the gap between Microsoft's Windows and Google's Android OS with its App Player application, which was released in beta today.Īpp Player is an emulator that allows Android applications to run on Windows 7, Vista, and XP OSes.

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