Bluestacks - Run android apps on Mac OS and Windows

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• phongtt Guru

  December 2012

  I used to know about it via a friend but haven't tried yet.
  
  Thanks for sharing

  Greetings from Vietnam. We are mobile game/app development studio. Gideros/Unity/Cocos2d-x

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  There was a similar service to launch your android apps in web browser, but I can't remember the link right now

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• Scouser Guru

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  All I can say is wow, this is cool but having done some investigating, it would appear that you can't side-load an app, you can only install apps from a market.
  
  Unfortunately what this means to us is that we cannot run the Gideros Player app. Not unless there is one on an official app store, or until somebody figures out how to inject the Gideros Player app into the Data.sparsefs file system.
  
  It does play my HappyCatz app quite happily though

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• SimpleLoop Member

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  To install Android APK in BlueStacks on Mac OSX use this command in terminal: ~/Library/BlueStacks\ App\ Player/Runtime/uHD-Adb install path-to-your-apk
  
  Just tried it worked perfectly.

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• SimpleLoop Member

  December 2012

  Pictures of the Gideros Player running on it.
  
  The network on my BlueStacks appears to be playing up at the moment though, can't load any of the stores

  

  

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• Scouser Guru

  December 2012

  @SimpleLoop: Thanks for that. I should read the manual / readme before posting b0110x

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• evs Member

  January 2013

  @SimpleLoop thanks for the info, don't have to use that terrible android emulator now!
  
  
  Cheers
  
  evs

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• OZApps Guru

  January 2013

  Got it working without any dramas and it is much faster on the Mac than it was on Windows (when it was released, haven't tried the latest build) Can now test the new releases that members of the community release, however would like if we can sideload apps on this.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  January 2013

  Found it.
  Here you can publish your apps that will run in a website. Haven't tried it yet, but maybe someone would be interested in it
  https://www.appsurfer.com/
  

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  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• phongtt Guru

  January 2013

  @ar2rsawseen: very interesting

  Greetings from Vietnam. We are mobile game/app development studio. Gideros/Unity/Cocos2d-x

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• OZApps Guru

  January 2013

  There was a similar service that also offered to play iOS apps via the web player, but both are slow and un-responsive (atleast not with my broadband connection)

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• phongtt Guru

  January 2013

  Just tried Angry Birds on AppSurfer. Yeah too slow for me

  Greetings from Vietnam. We are mobile game/app development studio. Gideros/Unity/Cocos2d-x

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  January 2013

  You want to say that you have better performance with BlueStacks?
  
  Tried two same apps on Appsurfer and BlueStacks and they run pretty similar on my old laptop

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• SimpleLoop Member

  January 2013

  @OZApps what do you mean when you say sideload apps, I thought this just meant loading the apk files directly into it without going through an appstore?
  
  You can load apk files into bluestacks using this command in terminal: ~/Library/BlueStacks\ App\ Player/Runtime/uHD-Adb install path-to-your-apk
  
  There is a windows equivalent command which I believe is in the program files for the Bluestacks player
  
  There are also many other functions in the uHD-Adb if anyone wants to have a look at what else you can do.

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• OZApps Guru

  January 2013

  You want to say that you have better performance with BlueStacks?
  
  Tried two same apps on Appsurfer and BlueStacks and they run pretty similar on my old laptop

  @Arthurs, yes the performance of Bluestacks is amazing on my iMac 2.8GHz 24GB RAM system where as the AppSurfer (Web one) is sloooooooooooow.
  

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• pykaso Member

  July 2013

  I found this nice project . http://www.genymotion.com/

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• frozenend3 Member

  June 2014

  Sorry i can't find uHD- Adb install

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• OZApps Guru

  June 2014

  @frozenend3,
  it is one word 'uHD-Adb' not a command and a parameter.
  
  You can find it in the Runtime Directory (to which you will find a link in the '~\Library\BlueStacks\App Player' directory which basically leads you to '\Applications\BlueStacks.app\Contents\Runtime').
  
  You will have to use the terminal, so open a terminal and type the following commands
  
  cd \Applications\BlueStacks.app\Contents\Runtime
  
  uHD-Adb install

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• john26 Maintainer

  June 2014

  It may be worth mentioning there is now another way to run Gideros projects on desktop:
  
  http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/4469/introducing-longford-a-partly-gideros-compatible-open-source-game-engine#Item_23
  

  http://giderosmobile.com
  https://github.com/gideros/gideros
  https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnBlackburn1975
  

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• Unknown Member

  August 2018

  With BlueStacks can you do Samsung Galaxy store so like download games that are on Samsung galaxy and not android play store?

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• PatriciaCaruso Member

  October 2018

  Pictures of the Gideros Player running on it.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  October 2018

  Nox works too.

  Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!).
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• Mareake Member

  January 2019

  SimpleLoop said:

  To install Android APK in BlueStacks on Mac OSX use this command in terminal: ~/Library/BlueStacks\ App\ Player/Runtime/uHD-Adb install path-to-your-apk
  
  Just tried it worked perfectly.

  Thanks! That's what I'm looking for, I have been using any android emulator but I can find the good one. I will try to using this bluestacks. Can this bluestacks have a latest version?
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2019

  NOX is here https://www.bignox.com/
  
  MEmu is here: https://www.memuplay.com/
  
  BlueStacks is here: https://www.bluestacks.com/
  
  

  Coder, video game industry veteran (since the '80s, ❤'s assembler), arrested - never convicted hacker (in the '90s), dad of five, he/him (if that even matters!).
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• keszegh Member

  January 2019

  @SinisterSoft , which one do you recommend?

  Longtitle Productions, creator of
  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2019

  I've used Nox, that seems ok, better than bluestacks when i tried it - bluestacks used to be spammy - but now they have funing it seems ok - out of those 3 I think bluestacks has the newest android.

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• keszegh Member

  January 2019

  thanks.
  in their homepage bluestacks claims to be fastest, but who knows.
  
  after all gideros player is the fastest and most convenient 'emulator' i can imagine.

  Longtitle Productions, creator of
  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  February 2019

  Gideros player will be the fastest I'd imagine. I tried bluestacks and it doesn't seem that fast to me, but that might just be something down to my machine configuration, etc

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  July 2020

  The best thing to do is use for Windows desktop export is UWP, a side benefit is that you can also publish your game to XBox One.
  

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• MoKaLux Member

  July 2020

  =bot with nasty link in signature

  my growING GIDEROS github repositories: https://github.com/mokalux?tab=repositories

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