
Just as if you turned on a new Android tablet for the first time, you’ll be run through the basic setup. Once you complete the profile setup, you’ll be presented with the BlueStacks GUI and your now-running (emulated) Android device: A BlueStacks account gives you access to some interesting features (like chatting with other BlueStacks users while they’re playing the same games as you), but the best feature is that it syncs your settings across devices-so if you install BlueStacks on your desktop and laptop, everything is the same regardless of where you’re using it. Next, you’ll be prompted to create a BlueStacks account using your Google account to sign in. You’ll be taken through the usual app installation process, confirming at the end that you want BlueStacks to have access to the App Store and Application Communications. Once the installer has finished downloading, launch it.
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We’re using Windows in our example, but the process for Mac should be pretty similar. To get started with BlueStacks, simply head over to their downloads page and grab an appropriate installer for your computer. If you are, you can use multi-touch, but otherwise you’re out of luck if the app you’re using requires it. Second, multitouch is missing, unless you’re using BlueStacks on a computer with a touch screen monitor. First, the current version of BlueStacks only runs Android 4.4.2 KitKat, so if you need something newer than that, you’ll need to install the Android SDK instead. The entire experience is incredibly smooth on modern hardware (BlueStacks has been around for years and what was originally a pretty rocky alpha-software experience is now quite polished) and even things that previously didn’t works so well (like access to the host computer’s web cam or issues with applications that require GPS data) now work surprisingly well.
