Ever wanted to play Android games on your Windows PC or wanted to run
Android apps like WhatsApp, BBM on your Windows 8 PC?
The idea seems
great and is brought to reality by
Andy.
Andy is a free Android emulator that runs on VMware VirtualBox technology.
Though facing competition with BlueStacks, Andy stands out differently with some features that even BlueStacks doesn’t offer.
Run Android apps & games on Windows PC
Andy
gives you a pure Android feeling by installing an Android tablet
firmware on a virtual space. If you switch to the full-screen mode, you
will feel like you are operating an Android PC.
Let it be games
like ‘Clash of Clans’ or social apps like ‘WhatsApp’, it can run almost
any Android app that can run on a normal Android tablet.
There
are lot of bundled apps provided by the developers which include
popular games and social media apps which are available for Android
platform.
This freeware comes pre-installed with 1Click Sync
application that ensures seamless integration of apps from PC to mobile
device without any hassle of making a connection. You can use your
mobile as a remote control for Andy to play games by simply downloading
the Andy Remote Control app from Google Play
here.
The
developers made a comparison between Andy, BlueStacks and YouWave which
are considered as the best Android emulators. I would like to add the
comparison in this post to highlight the features where Andy stands
differently.

Courtesy: Andyroid.net
Installing
and setting up Andy is a very easy job. You just need to run the setup,
click ‘Next’ a few times then the installer is on its own. It
will automatically download the required files, VirtualBox and will
automatically integrate Andy into VirtualBox, and you will not even feel
that you’ve installed VirtualBox on your Windows computer. If you
manually want to change some settings for Andy you can do so by opening
the VirtualBox from the Start Menu.
Overall,
Andy is a complete Android solution for Windows, but if you are
thinking of turning your PC into and Android machine then Andy will not
be a suitable option. It has been developed just to enjoy apps on bigger
screen that are available on your Android phone. Playing mobile games
on a bigger screen is real fun and if you get applications like WhatsApp
on your PC then it is amazing too.
Andy free download
Click
here to download Andy.