Now use your Android app to screen to scan the QR code that’s displayed on your PC, to link the devices. On your PC, select the “Pair with QR code” button. Next, sign in to the companion app with the same Microsoft account that you’re signed in to on your PC. To do this, open a web browser on your Android device and then enter the link that’s displayed on your PC.

You’ll be asked to sign in to your Microsoft account, and then prompted to install or open the companion app on your Android device.

If you start from your Android phone, select this from the list of phone models. If you start from your PC, in the search box on the taskbar, type the words “your phone,” and then click or tap to launch the app. It’s a bit more of a headache to set up and its performance isn’t as good as Bluestacks, but it does let PC users wirelessly access apps on your nearby smartphone – so long as both devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. How to run Android apps on your computer using Your Phone appĪ second way to access Android apps and games on a Windows PC is to launch the Your Phone app, which is already built into Windows 10 (and on many Samsung Galaxy smartphones, there’s a preinstalled Link to Windows app, which can also work).

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