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What on earth is the use case for this - using something that's only available on Android on a non-Android device?


Quickly testing Android apps on your laptop without having to deal with an emulator?

Concrete example, I've just finished the first beta of our companies new Android app. Now I want to show everybody in the company to get feedback and generally let them know what is happening.

Hard: Convince everybody to install the beta on their phones, and then convince everybody with an iPhone to borrow an android phone and test it there.

Easy: Send everybody a link that they can click and have the latest beta show up running on their desktop.


I imagine you could run something like BlueStacks on an Azure cloud and allow people to remotely control it. Probably costly though.

http://www.bluestacks.com/





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