AMD AppZone Player brings 500,000 Android apps to PC

[squarebutt]

http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/45837-amd-appzone-player-brings-500000-android-apps-pc/

I find it strange that AMD come up with this. Surely it cant be difficult to run Apps on any pc and not only AMD hardware.

 

[humbug]

http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/45837-amd-appzone-player-brings-500000-android-apps-pc/

I find it strange that AMD come up with this. Surely it cant be difficult to run Apps on any pc and not only AMD hardware.

Hexius are placing far to much emphasis on Android App's, they are only one part of this, it's almost as if they are missing the point, Having said that AMD are pushing Android App's a lot with this to, it's probably good for marketing.

http://www.amd.com/us/vision/shop/cool-apps/Pages/cool-apps.aspx

AMD launched this in anticipation of the Trinity APU release, which has just been sent to reviewers.

This stuff may or may not run on any Desktop system, i don't actually know.
But this is designed around AMD's 'Fusion' Concept, a lot of those App's are GPU Hardware Directcompute accelerated.
If you look around there is a lot of Adobe, Cyberlink and the like software, all of it uses OpenCL to boost performance.

So while they may or may not run on an Intel / AMD x86 CPU + Nvidia system, some will not have the benefits of the AMD GPU / APU Hardware and be quite slow.

The only way to find out if this works at all is to Download it and try it on an Intel / AMD x86 CPU + Nvidia rig.

 

[Orcvader]

I already have Bluestacks running on an Intel + AMD system, and an AMD APU system. Earlier versions of Bluestack was mostly software rendering so most of the apps were terribly laggy, but it seems the latest beta is hardware accelerated and they now run smoothly. Most apps work, but the only ones that don't are ones that requires flash (installing flash app doesn't work) or one that requires an ARM CPU. Another problem is it's based of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, so newer apps that requires Android 4.0 or higher will not work.

 

[wolvers]

Brilliant. I'm defo gonna get a Win8 tablet now, just need to wait for an AMD powered one. This will give AMD a big advantage in the Win8 tablet sector IMO, particularly until the the Win8 app library fills up.

 

[humbug]

Brilliant. I'm defo gonna get a Win8 tablet now, just need to wait for an AMD powered one. This will give AMD a big advantage in the Win8 tablet sector IMO, particularly until the the Win8 app library fills up.

Yeah... AMD are being tight lipped as usual.

All they have is details of the first Tablet chip, (which is APU based) here

And an AMD APU Compal Tablet Prototype. In June already.

Nothing more that i can see, but now that Win 8 is out more details might emerge.

 

[squarebutt]

I'm really amazed that Mobile Apps aren't easily run an a PC. I'll Live and learn.

 

[MeMeMeMe]

I tried BlueStacks on my PC and it worked fine, but it was really intrusive. Added itself as a startup service, and no way to easily shut it down once it's running (can't do it from the system tray). Plus, it delivers notifications via the system tray about things like game recommendations, even when you aren't using the program.

So it might be fun to have, but it's too intrusive for me.

 

[humbug]

I tried BlueStacks on my PC and it worked fine, but it was really intrusive. Added itself as a startup service, and no way to easily shut it down once it's running (can't do it from the system tray). Plus, it delivers notifications via the system tray about things like game recommendations, even when you aren't using the program.

So it might be fun to have, but it's too intrusive for me.

Yeah it like to run all the time...

Here's how to fix that.

Start >> in search type msconfig >> uncheck BlueStacks, see pic

 

[MeMeMeMe]

I know how to do that. but the problem is, every time I run it, from then on until i reboot it'll be running in the system tray and popping up notifications whenever it feels like it.

I had two in under an hour after I first used it, and that sent me looking for ways to control it other than killing its process, and I didn't find a good way.