Installing app on laptop

Aidanmc

Is it possible to install a banking app on a laptop?
I downloaded bluestacks app player to laptop and then tried to install Barclays app. It seemed to install ok but does not open correctly.
Any other app players worth a try???

grumpycrab

Guessing that bank apps will only run on the paltforms they're coded for - for security reasons if nothing else.

Neil_Jones

Aidanmc wrote: »

Is it possible to install a banking app on a laptop?

Would it not be far easier just to log into Barclays via the website and a browser?

psychic_teabag

You could try the android sdk emulator, I guess.
https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator
Probably aimed more at app developers though. (I use it to run whatsapp since my aged and rooted phone won't. Just because I already had it from when I used to do some android development.)

I guess another option would be to dual-boot your laptop, and run android direcltly.

https://www.howtogeek.com/179691/4-ways-to-run-android-on-your-pc-and-make-your-own-dual-os-system/

or maybe run it in a virtual environment
https://www.howtogeek.com/164570/how-to-install-android-in-virtualbox/

Aidanmc

Neil_Jones wrote: »

Would it not be far easier just to log into Barclays via the website and a browser?

To start a switch, its only available through the Barclays App! Or visit a branch.

stragglebod

Aidanmc wrote: »

To start a switch, its only available through the Barclays App! Or visit a branch.

I was scoffing when I read that, clearly rubbish I thought, no bank would be stupid enough to put up such pointless barriers to new customers.

Ummm

https://www.barclays.co.uk/current-accounts/switch-bank-account/

I'd be finding a different bank personally, others might be more tolerant

Neil_Jones

Aidanmc wrote: »

To start a switch, its only available through the Barclays App! Or visit a branch.

Well would it not have been beneficial to say that in your opening post as to why you want to do such a thing? Then I wouldn't have come back with the reply I did. I'm sorry my psychic powers are a bit below par today...

Aidanmc

Neil_Jones wrote: »

Well would it not have been beneficial to say that in your opening post as to why you want to do such a thing? Then I wouldn't have come back with the reply I did. I'm sorry my psychic powers are a bit below par today...

Not really! I asked a specific question........and received mostly specific answers.

DoaM

Aidanmc wrote: »

Not really! I asked a specific question........and received mostly specific answers.

Have you tried any of them? As I understand things, unless you can precisely emulate a non-rooted Android environment on a PC then pretty much no banking app is going to work.

Hence the comment was valid - it was a key piece of information you omitted.

elsien

In the time spent trying to install apps, posting on here then trying to implement any suggestions, going into a branch may be the easier option.

Aidanmc

elsien wrote: »

In the time spent trying to install apps, posting on here then trying to implement any suggestions, going into a branch may be the easier option.

Not when the nearest branch is over 50 miles away!