Suunto app on windows10/11 comming soon

deltof

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/9/22827037/google-android-games-windows-pc-google-play-games

Google is planning to bring Android games to Windows PCs next year. A Google Play Games app will be available in 2022, built by Google to allow games from Google Play to run on Windows laptops, tablets, and PCs.

“Starting in 2022, players will be able to experience their favorite Google Play games on more devices: seamlessly switching between a phone, tablet, Chromebook, and soon, Windows PCs,” says Greg Hartrell, Google’s product director of games on Android and Google Play, in a statement to The Verge. “This Google built product brings the best of Google Play Games to more laptops and desktops, and we are thrilled to expand our platform for players to enjoy their favorite Android games even more.”

Google spokesperson Alex Garcia-Kummert tells The Verge that the company has built this app on its own, which means Google hasn’t partnered with Microsoft, BlueStacks, or others here. The upcoming app will also allow players to resume games on a desktop PC, after playing them on a phone, tablet, or Chromebook.

For now, Google is simply teasing the app during The Game Awards tonight, with a promised release window of sometime next year. It’s not yet clear what technology Google is using to emulate Android apps on Windows, but games will run locally instead of streaming from the cloud.

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“This will be a native Windows app distributed by Google, which will support Windows 10 and up,” explains Hartrell. “It will not involve game streaming.” Google’s app won’t rely on any special integration with Windows 11, and the company will also distribute the app itself.

Microsoft is also bringing Android apps to Windows 11.
Google’s announcement comes months after Microsoft started testing Android apps on Windows 11 PCs. Microsoft has built an underlying Windows Subsystem for Android, which is capable of running Android apps from a variety of sources. The software giant has partnered with Amazon to let Windows users natively install games and apps from the Amazon Appstore, but native Google Play support won’t be available officially through Microsoft’s feature.

Since Microsoft is only officially partnered with Amazon for that feature, it has meant far fewer Android games and apps available for Windows 11 users to easily install than there might otherwise be. The door is open for Google, BlueStacks, and others to fill that hole.

While Microsoft, and now Google, work on bringing Android apps and games to Windows, BlueStacks has gone a step further and is now bringing Android games to web browsers. BlueStacks X is a free way to play Android games in your browser, and BlueStacks has been focused on Android gaming on Windows since it became the predominant use case for its main app in 2016.

Details on Google’s plans for Android apps on Windows first appeared in a document from the Epic v. Apple trial earlier this year. Dated October 2020, the 70-page document described an ambitious effort to get Android games on Macs and Windows PCs. The document revealed Google would first bring “emulated, native and streamed games” to Windows, and at least part of that effort is starting in 2022.

isazi

@deltof I was going to flag this post as spam, then I checked your profile and it’s legit so I’m leaving it here.

freeheeler

@isazi
this means all our persistent, endless, traditional “big screen” begging, praying and hoping finally will have an end?!

isazi

@freeheeler I do not know. One thing is being able to run Android applications on Windows, another is having an application run properly on Windows. We will see

markytarky

@freeheeler I think this is just a workaround, not a solution. Remember we have mac and iOS users as well and not just a few.

Tomas5

@freeheeler from my experience how “well” optimised is suunto app for iPad screen, this will solve nothing but maybe android version is better in this.

Tomas5

Just to ilustrate what i mean.

isazi

@tomas5 at least on Android the app is fullscreen on a tablet.

Tomas5

@isazi is there better layout too or is it just streched but with same information density as mobile screen? I know that ios version is somehow behind android. iOS still doesn’t have full screen zoomable graphs when in landscape. If this feature will work on windows, i will probably start using windows alongside linux again

TonyG

@freeheeler not for me, I’m just not keen on the app, and if you look at the reviews (sort by most recent) on the apple app store you will see its not well received there either!

Not meaning to hurt anyone’s feelings or start a debate; its just my personal taste, and me highlighting an observation from the app store reviews.

Tomas5

@tonyg on android play store, if you sort by date. Even latest reviews are usually around 2 stars of 5. But overal is 3.1 and on apple store even 4.2 stars. Garmin connect has 4.6 on both platforms.

pavel.samokha

@tomas5 low rating on play store is due to angry MC users, not objective result.

olymay

Resurrecting an old topic…

There may soon (and by soon I mean maybe later this year, maybe 2023, or maybe never) another option for getting the Suunto App on your PC / desktop…

Link to article.

Essentially it looks like we may be able to stream apps from Android phones (Pixels only at the moment) to a PC (Chromebook, Windows, and Apple) and not only see what is displayed, but interreact with it too!

This would be a fantastic service if it worked on all devices with all apps!

But I will stress, this is not yet official from Google and has been discovered in Android 13 Developer Preview 1. It may or may not work as it does right now, and it may never see the light of day. Who knows.

isazi

@olymay some people in the forum have experimented with it already.

olymay

@isazi they’ve played with the app streaming? That’s impressive as it’s only just been discovered (as far as I am aware). I’d love to hear more if anyone has done this

I know some have been using Android apps on Win11 (I tried, but not being in the US it won’t work for me) and that does look very good. But this streaming apps is very different, as the app is still running on the phone and the pc is essentially a second screen.

isazi

@olymay sorry I made a mistake, was referring to the possibility to run Android apps on PC.

olymay

@isazi no worries. I thought that might be the case, but a part of me (the geeky part) was hoping you were right and that some on here had in fact been playing around with the streaming apps. I would have been very impressed and more than a little jealous

Likarnik

@olymay this is already possible if you have a Samsung phone and use Samsung Dex app. Not sure how to force landscape mode:

olymay

@likarnik yeah, it’s similar, but also different

Dex is essentially screen sharing a modified version of the OS. It also requires a cable connection I believe?

This app streaming on Pixels seems like it just streams the app in question, with full control over how it looks and feels, as well as the ability to change orientation. And potentially access to the app drawer to run others too.
And it looks like it does this wirelessly.

It’s all early days and Google has only officially mentioned it for running messaging apps on Chromebooks, so who knows what we will get as a final version.

But anything that would allow me to run the Suunto App on my laptop would be great, whichever of these methods becomes available.

(I would love a Dex style interface to be native in Pixels (and all Android phones) it’s a great idea)

Likarnik

@olymay sure, native is always best! Dex requires cable connection and I don’t use it at all. Just for info if somebody is interested