


But since there were a limited number of PCs with ARM chips until recently, I suspect there wasn’t much demand. But the company says it’s upcoming BlueStack 5 release is a major update that will bring performance and efficiency improvements to the Android emulator.Īnd while the Bluestacks 5 Beta that’s available for download only runs on Intel or AMD devices, company CEO Rosen Sharma says support for running the emulator on devices with ARM processors is on the way, which could open the door to running Android apps on recent Macs with Apple M1 chips or Windows on ARM devices like the Surface Pro X.Īdding support for ARM might seem like a no-brainer, since most Android apps are written to run on devices with ARM processors.

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