Once you have all the ingredients, open the ARC Welder app, and open one of the. If you want to run Android apps on a PC or Mac, you’ll need to install Google Chrome, version 40 or later, you’ll need get the ARC Welder app, and you also need to obtain the APKs from Google’s Play Store or from around the web, which can be easily found. It’s all part of a new experiment Google calls “ARC” (App Runtime for Chrome), which is an app for Chrome that allows developers to test apps on different platforms - that being on a PC or Mac –, but more importantly, because the app is freely available, anyone can easily setup an environment to run Android apps on their computers.

In the past, we had different ways to make Android apps run on Windows, such as using an emulator like BlueStack, but now it seems that Google is planning to streamline the process, letting apps run freely on Windows, Mac OS X, and even Linux and the only requirement is to have a Chrome web browser. There has been talks about Microsoft letting Android apps run on Windows, but while the idea will help to bring more apps to the operating system, the fear of developers not being encourage to write for Windows seem to have stalled the idea.

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