If
you’ve read my article on the BlueStacks
App Player entitled “How
to use the BlueStacks App Player to play Android Apps on PC or Laptop -
Bluestacks App Player is The Great Gatsby for Android”, then you’d have
realized it has a curious limitation. BlueStacks
App Player runs a lot like an Emulator and is nothing like Google Android
on your smartphone as it doesn’t support multi-touch on touchscreens as well as
Remote Desktop Access.
Enter
Andy, the full software that can fully
emulate the Google Android experience on your PC or Laptop as explained in “Use
Andy to emulate Android on your Desktop”, published April 25, 2014 10:11 AM
PDT by Rick Broida, CNET News.
Albeit
I’m not a fan of Google Android, for those of you wondering what the Google Android
Operating System looks like on a Tablet, you can use this emulator to basically
get a feel for a Tablet Environment. Not to mention remotely control your
computer from your Google Android smartphones as the picture below clearly
suggests.
Andy’s
Developers are a pair based in California led by CEO Yossi Fishler with Eyal
Fishler, his brother doing most of the programming according to their Andy About page. This
clever program not only allows for a non-Android user to simulate an Android Tablet
or Smartphone and run Android apps, but also can act as offline storage for your
smartphone apps, should you run out of storage space on your SD Card on your
smartphone.
Simulations
are always best before committing to buying an Android Tablet or smartphone and
eventually cracking the Screen, for which I have a solution anyway as explained
in my Geezam blog article entitled “How
to Repair a Broken Screen on a Smartphone or Tablet”.
Learning
to clean your Tablet is also another handy lesson that you’ll need to care for
your Tablet as explained in my Geezam blog
article entitled “How
to make your own Cleaning Fluid and Cleaning Tips for your Smartphone or Tablet”,
pun unintended.
So
too is learning how to Backup the contents of your Blackberry to be placed on
their new home on an Apple iPhone, Apple iPad or Google Android smartphone or Tablet
as stated in my Geezam blog article entitled “How
to transfer Phone Contacts and Data from your Blackberry to your Apple iPhone
or Google Android smartphone or Tablet”.
How to install and use
Andy – Android and Windows Live-OS swappable Project looks more possible
Here’s
the steps, very much akin to the installation of the BlueStacks App Player:
1.
Download Andy, which will take awhile
2.
Install Andy, which will also take awhile
3.
Sign into Andy using your Google Account
4.
Sign into 1ClickSync Service using your
Google Account to allow for synchronization between your PC or Laptop and your
Google Android smartphone
5.
Download and install the Andy Remote
Control APK file on your smartphone to allow you to remotely control your
Desktop from your smartphone
At
this point you should be able to see the Android Tablet interface and be able
to use the controls to change form portrait to landscape mode. If you have a
touchscreen Laptop or Desktop PC screen, you can interact more directly via
multi-touch gestures, which Andy
supports.
Andy is a great step-up from the BlueStacks App Player, especially as it
throws in Remote Desktop Access as an added bonus. Android users should be
thrilled that Andy has come to their
rescue. Even more interesting is that the software programming behind Andy can also be expanded to create a
Live-OS environment that allows you to run and switch between Google Android
and Windows OS.
This
is similar to what the US$599 Asus Transformer Duet TD300 could have achieved
were it allowed to live as I’d predicted in my blog article
entitled “Microsoft
and Google kill US$599 Asus Transformer Duet TD300 - One Love Kickstarter
Project for Developers and Hardware Modders to Breathe life into The Art of the
Steal”.
Here’s
the link:
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