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hey guys this is Adam Lane from packing.com and you may remember seeing Joe Levi shows the video about how to run Android apps on a Windows 7 PC and it worked very well with that BlueStacks software which is invaded and I thought it would be fun to try it out on a Windows 8 tablet and see how it works with a multi-touch especially since a lot of Windows 8 tablets might be coming out later this year some of you might want to run Android apps on it so let's check it out so first off when we have the BlueStacks app installed it comes up in the classic environment in Windows 8 and we see this little window and right now I have the Amazon App Store loaded and we can touch to scroll it's a little laggy but there's our notifications bar now you have to remember that this is a beta program right now BlueStacks is in beta and Windows 8 is also in beta so we have a lot of potential for bugs and this particular tablet is an HP TouchSmart TM 2 from that was released before the first iPad was released so that's kind of old but we can run some Android programs let's try that and we can scroll through here works pretty good there's our home button there's your map and it's not super smooth but we can scroll and it does not work with multi-touch very well but it works a little bit so that's pretty cool when I install BlueStacks I got an error about graphics drivers so you'll probably need a better driver support in Windows 8 when both of these become available and when it freezes up you can go down here and restart while we're rebooting BlueStacks we can really easily swap to other Windows 8 apps still get to the Start menu and then we are back to loose text let's try this app you can beat them that's multi-touch you're working and we lost Facebook app you will see it in a small window and that seems to work pretty nicely so here's your pop-up keyboard you can type stuff here but if we want to use the windows 8 keyboard it doesn't seem to work except for spaces so a few bugs still in there here's the Google Search app or works pretty good and we can go to web pages and we do have multi-touch zooming so a little bit of lag but it's good to see multi-touch support is in there so that's a quick look at BlueStacks app for running Android apps on Windows 8 tablets there's still a lot of bugs in there problems with drivers but it's pretty cool to be able to actually run Android apps on a Windows 8 tablet give us a thumbs up if you like this video and that's it for now