Once downloaded on a PC, an icon of the Android robot standing on the Windows logo appears on the top right-hand corner of the Windows desktop screen. A menu of over 10 default apps is displayed by placing the cursor on the Android icon and can be opened with one click. Once activated, you can also use the mouse and keyboard to interact with the Android applications on your PC.

Pulse, 2, and are some of the apps available. Testing them on an Acer Aspire 5738 laptop with a 2.1 GHz Pentium Dual Core CPU and 8GB of memory running Windows 7, I experienced none of the bugs that one might expect with an alpha version of software.

You can click out of any Android app by clicking the "X" icon only once on the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. Open Windows programs that are running in the background can be accessed without closing BlueStacks App Player by pressing the Alt. and tab keys on the keyboard.

The main novelty of BlueStacks App Player is that it . You access BlueStacks and the apps running on it like you would an Internet browser, word processor, or any other Windows application without slowing down your computer. BlueStacks has thus managed to create a program that runs applications from a different operating system on Windows that does not require the installation of a separate OS or console. Since BlueStacks App Player runs on Windows, you do not have to boot into another operating system to run the apps on your PC.

Apps can be added to BlueStacks App Player by clicking on the BlueStacks Channels icon. There, dozens of other Android apps are listed and can be downloaded with your Web browser by clicking the app icon.