WindowsAndroid Lets You Run Android 4.0 Natively On Your PC

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WindowsAndroid Lets You Run Android 4.0 Natively On Your PC

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 25, 2013 @06:50AM from the hey-why-not dept.

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."

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i know what i'm thinking is heavily biased but! by etash · 2013-01-25 06:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

how many of you would think it twice before willingly installing software from a chinese software company -- given all the news we hear recently about chinese companies being denied access to important western markets due to security reasons and all.
1. Re:i know what i'm thinking is heavily biased but! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-25 07:13 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Sandbox it. It's an Android emulator, if it can't run in a sandbox at full mobile device speeds, it's not worth using. If it can't run in a sandbox because it requires administrator access to your boot sector, delete with extreme prejudice.
2. Re:i know what i'm thinking is heavily biased but! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-25 07:36 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  You mean the accusations without proof from the US government? The same government that's been waging a cyber-war against other countries in secret for years now? The same government who can run surveillance on their own citizens without a warrant by handing someone a post-it note?
3. Re:i know what i'm thinking is heavily biased but! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-25 07:46 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  google has lost in China not because of government blocking, but because it sucks in product quality.
  That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. First of all, it does not hinge on "the government", but certain ministry official that want to be well greased. When those are faced between the decision to accept grease from a Chinese and a foreigner, the foreigner always loses; that's why Google's inland competitors are easily pulling ahead. Second, the party recognises the danger of unrestricted flow and exchange of information as provided through Google's search engine, so they would not let them go forward that easily - it is the need to stay in control so that social changes come slowly and gradually, avoiding chaos and upheaval. Lastly, it is ridiculous to claim that Android lacks in quality - the Chinese invented Shanzhai and idolise its culture, to the extent that anyone puts up with the quality of knockoff software when someone else would long since have given up in frustration.
4. Re:i know what i'm thinking is heavily biased but! by gmuslera · 2013-01-25 08:20 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  The problem with chinese products is that you don't know if they will try to get your data or not. Thats the advantage of US based products/services, with them you are sure
5. Re:i know what i'm thinking is heavily biased but! by fluffy99 · 2013-01-25 09:25 · Score: 3
  
  You mean exactly like CHina, Israel, and other countries are doing? It's naive to assume the US holds a monopoly on cyber espionage.
Re:yeah bitch by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-25 07:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Chrome on Android on Windows is really fast, huh?
Developers by Therad · 2013-01-25 07:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

Seems like a good thing for android developers. The current simulator is a bit slow.
1. Re:Developers by inamorty · 2013-01-25 07:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The current simulator is a bit slow.
  I'm curious.
  What kind of filter are you using that is able to remove all traces of swearing from your post? It's very effective!
From China..? by mr.dreadful · 2013-01-25 07:01 · Score: 4, Interesting

Is anyone else a little hesitant to run Chinese software? I don't want to be xenophobic, but I'm a bit leery of either Russian or Chinese software.
1. Re:From China..? by ArhcAngel · 2013-01-25 07:32 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  It's Grand POOBAH!
  
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http://androvm.org by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-25 07:02 · 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).
1. Re:http://androvm.org by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · 2013-01-25 07:36 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Mr. Ballmer, your medication is ready!
  
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2. Re:http://androvm.org by phorm · 2013-01-25 08:25 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Any luck running Netflix on it?
  That's about the only thing other than games I run Windows for.
BlueStacks by Jason+Levine · 2013-01-25 07:07 · 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.

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Peeling the onion by nanospook · 2013-01-25 07:13 · Score: 4, Interesting

I have an app that runs windows on my phone. I wonder if I can run Socket in there? Wouldn't that be the bomb?

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Already in the SDK. by ewanm89 · 2013-01-25 07:30 · Score: 5, Interesting

The SDK can already hardware virtualize an x86 image already (via Intel HAXM on windows and Mac and KVM on Linux), and there is a 4.0.4 x86 image in the repositories.
Re:Does it handle OpenGL, then? by ewanm89 · 2013-01-25 07:34 · Score: 4, 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).
Need Windows emulator... by marciot · 2013-01-25 08:12 · Score: 5, Funny

I would like to try this on my Android phone. Does anyone know of a good Windows emulator I can use to run this software?
1. Re:Need Windows emulator... by snadrus · 2013-01-25 10:05 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  I see Bochs for Android (QEMU) running WinXP on YouTube. That's really the best tool I think you'll find.
  
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Yo dawg by bedouin · 2013-01-25 13:34 · Score: 3, Funny

I heard you like shitty operating systems that rip off Apple's ideas, so we . . .