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Bluestacks VM: Can its Android apps run transparently (look like they're running in Windows)?



 
 
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Old September 20th 19, 06:53 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Bluestacks VM: Can its Android apps run transparently (look like they're running in Windows)?

Windows 10 Home x64 build 1903

My inquiry is about running VMMs (Virtual Machine Managers) on Windows
10, not about a Windows 10 issue.

Virtualbox has its seamless mode. VMware Player has its unity mode.
These make programs running under a guest OS inside a virtual machine
look like they are running on the host OS. That is, say the host OS is
Windows 10 and you run Ubuntu as the guest OS inside a VM, but the Linux
apps look like they're running in your Windows 10 host. You don't get
distracted by seeing the Linux apps running inside a windows showing the
desktop for the guest OS. The apps running inside the Linux guest OS
appear to be running on your Windows host.

I'm wondering if Bluestacks, yet another virtual machine manager but for
Android, can be made to run in seamless or unity mode. That is, I'd
like to run Android apps on my Windows host but VM for the Android guest
OS is transparent (you don't see the guest OS' desktop), so all you see
is the Android app on your Windows host.

Microsoft is coming out with app mirroring using their Your Phone app in
Windows 10. Alas, what that does is mirror the screen of your Android
phone on your Windows 10 PC. That style of "emulation" has been around
for many years. I trialed AirDroid a couple years ago. Mobizen was
another choice, but I didn't trial that one. You enable USB Debugging
Mode on the Android phone, install the ADB (Android Debugging Bridge)
driver on your Windows host, and use a USB cable, wifi, or use Internet
connectivity to connect your Windows host to your Android phone. This
mirrors your Android phone's screen on your Windows host. Nope, not
what I want. That has you running the app on your Android phone and
mirroring the phone's screen to your Windows host which means the scheme
doesn't work if your phone isn't reachable, like it is powered off, plus
the app is running on your phone instead of on your Windows host (under
a VMM). Think of VNC or TeamViewer where you get to see on one host
what is running on another host.

I don't want mirroring of my Android phone onto my Windows' desktop. I
want independent loading of an Android app on my Windows host, but
without even seeing the Android app is running inside a VM. The Android
app is running inside a VM, but that operation is transparent to the
user. The user just sees the window for the Android app on their
Windows desktop.

If Bluestacks doesn't support a seamless mode, I suppose I could use
VMware Player that runs Android as a guest OS, and have VMware Player
run in seamless mode.
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