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you've already seen how well these surface pro runs full pc apps but what about Android apps sure why not this is Adam Lane from packing.com I'm going to show you how to run Android apps on these surface pro ok so here we are with my surface pro and first off I'm going to show you BlueStacks comm this is where we can get a special app to run all sorts of Android apps on Windows 8 and you see this is the special one for the surface pro Windows 8 optimized so that's the one I downloaded installed it's a beta right now so let's try it out and I've already installed a couple apps here you can do the search and we can just search for some more but let's try some that I already installed let's see how about Angry Birds now I have the screen set to 1080p the native resolution for the surface pro but you can see there's some pixelation in here so it doesn't really run it at 1080p and here we go so this is the free Android version of Angry Birds and you can tell by the ads let's try it out and let's go right about there and do it and you see a little bit of lag but we're still doing pretty nicely here not bad at all so the way you navigate BlueStacks and the Windows 8 version is you swipe from the side here and that gives you a little control panel and this button will go back to the home or if I got that back you see the close button this is a minimized button that'll make it a smaller window and you got the settings the back button and the menu button so let's try another app how about Google Maps the GPS location does not work very well or at all so let's type in something and there we go and it's pretty pretty good it's a little bit of a lag there and again it's not rendering at the 1080p resolution you see some pixels there but it's working pretty well not bad at all and let's try another app how about Instagram sure so there's Android version of Instagram and you can see all my friends pictures but let's try to take a picture and no it doesn't like that very well do the front camera not going to happen so some things oddly obviously don't work another cool app to try friend caster let's see how that works so not too bad there's our menu Frank a sir you can upload pictures no problem how about plume not bad at all now here's the settings for BlueStacks so we got Cloud Connect dating time all that stuff here's an interest in one manage applications now from here you can choose the app size so I have them all set as tablet so I get the full width versions there but you can change them to default usually they install as the default Windows 8 apps all still working flick flick flick and we see Android is in there now one bug as if I want to snap to programs next to each other doesn't always work see it went right back to full screen so I can do normal Windows apps two at a time but the Android BlueStacks needs to the full screen really so when we do search we get a list and I can press install and now I can choose from a three different apps source which one I want to use and there we go and just like any other Android we can install it like so and there we go it's installing here's your whoops there's your notifications bar this is a little difficult to activate because a swipe down sometimes it's for Windows 8 but if you do it just a little bit right there then you can get the notifications bar in Android so that's a quick look at using BlueStacks for Windows 8 to run Android apps on your surface pro works pretty nicely be sure to give this video a thumbs up and that's it for now