WindowsAndroid Lets You Run Android 4.0 Natively On Your PC 190
An anonymous reader writes "WindowsAndroid is a very cool tool from the Beijing-based startup SocketeQ that lets you run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) as a native application on Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 machines. The creators tell us they have a deep background in virtualization, operating system, and graphics technologies, and have been working on the project for years. Essentially, WindowsAndroid allows you not only to execute Android apps on your Windows computer, but also use the browser, not to mention every other component of the operating system."
http://androvm.org (Score:5, Informative)
AndroVM is better, runs on GNU/Linux and already supports hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering of Android games when the game installer is not huge (less than 100 MB in size).
BlueStacks (Score:5, Informative)
Looks similar to what BlueStacks does. http://www.bluestacks.com/
And, for those posting about being wary of software from a Chinese company, BlueStacks is located in California.
Re:BlueStacks (Score:3, Informative)
Re:From China..? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Does it handle OpenGL, then? (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, hardware accelerated graphics is available in the Android SDK emulator, it's still marked experimental and has a few caveats, but is available (since SDK tools 17).