You can now run Android apps on your Windows desktop, but why on earth would you want to do that? Because there's a world of cool, useful and down-right funky Android apps just waiting to be used.

There are also tools that let developers of legacy Win32 apps turn their software into Universal Windows Apps that can run across phones, tablets, PCs, and other platforms.

Android Studio One popular way to get Android apps running on a PC is to go through the Android emulator released by Google as part of the official Android Studio. The emulator can be used to ...