

Once the advanced settings for the control open, select either the "Keyboard and mouse" or the "Gamepad" option to assign buttons or customize the settings for your preferred method of playing.įor some controls, you may also have to click on the "More settings" option afterward to access all the advanced settings.

BlueStacks was the upset winner of "Best Software at CES 2012 for its App Player software. The company is funded with 15M from Andreessen-Horowitz, Radar Partners, Redpoint, Ignition Partners and Qualcomm. The site went live today.īlueStacks was launched in 2009 to bring the energy of the mobile app world to every type of device. The company's site at allows new Surface Pro and Win8 PC owners to get apps from their phone and any additional apps they want into their Win8 PC, running them fullscreen and touch-enabled. We're the perfect conduit to get popular programs back on the PC." "We seem to have reached a tipping point where we've brought mobile apps to so many computers worldwide, the remaining OEM's customers are asking for these apps also. "The response in the OEM community has been as strong or stronger than the surprising numbers we've been seeing from organic downloads," said BlueStacks head of Global Sales and Strategic Alliances, Apu Kumar. Additional download numbers via OEM partnerships have not been released, though the company says they are healthy. The downloads all came from the company's homepage,. Having announced several OEM partnerships in recent months, BlueStacks also recently passed 5 million downloads of its mobile software across Mac and PC. Our goal is to get people more value out of their Surface Pro and Win8 devices." The number of mobile apps being written overall is expanding exponentially and Microsoft has not added apps to the handful it has. "Now that it's finally available on our website we're looking forward to getting feedback and building on the experience. "We've had our users asking for a Win8 version for a long time," said BlueStacks CEO Rosen Sharma.

Recently, Google launched a Get Your Google Back video campaign that BlueStacks is paying homage to. BlueStacks also announced a new site: where new Windows 8 and Surface Pro users can download BlueStacks' software and bring any mobile apps to their device.

The program is free to download and can run any Android app on the new Surface Pro. BlueStacks Releases Surface Pro-Optimized Version of "App Player"Īnnounces to fill widening Win8 App GapĬampbell, CA Febru– Mobile company BlueStacks today released a Surface Pro-optimized, officially supported Windows 8 version of its popular App Player software.
