BlueStacks, the Android runtime development environment, has just signed a partnership with Critix and received a funding of $7.6m which could now help to turn the company into a variable business.
BlueStacks was firstly demonstrated in public just this week at the Citrix Synergy conference. BlueStack-Citrix partnership allows the Critix reciever to deliver the software which showing just one of the ways of how BlueStacks could be practically used other than being just another cool Android development tool.
BlueStacks seem to be even more exciting as it is capable of replacing the current Android emulation that is compulsarily used by the developers to test their apps inside Windows. The current emulation methods cause their own inherent problems, such as degraded performance. But these problems would no longer exist by the use of BlueStacks.
Running Android software on a Windows PC involves emulation—which affects on its performance and causes to resource overhead- which is known to most of the Android app developers. BlueStacks comes with a native x86 Android runtime which doesn’t depend on emulation. This helps to overcome the performance barrier. The company has also said that any of the Android applications running on its stack will have high performance on Windows and will be free from any kind of problems faced while using Google’s emulator.
BlueStacks CEO Rosen Sharma said in an interview that, the software developers working on the project have been working very carefully to make the stack as seamless as possible for the smooth operating of Android apps making it feel just like native Windows software when being used. The whole system also comes with an additional advantage, which is that any of the Android apps coded for the operating system’s native APIs do not require any re-writing, eliminating another barrier for developers.
Sharma further says that the day is not far when one day mobile devices such as convertible notebook computers could come pre-loaded with both Windows, and Android applications, this possibility occurs when the machine is converted into a tablet.
BlueStacks could make an impact in the on-going fight for mobile supremacy with this interesting new twist to the fight, bringing Android’s apps to the world of Windows.
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