You select the language and Google account sign window appears. You launch the emulator and a welcome screen appears. Installation is simple but filled with their sponsor ads. This android emulator is pretty easy to use and comes in FREE and PAID variants. The key reason for its success was its ease of usability and access to the consumers. It’s not a sin to say that perhaps it was the market-defining player during its peak days.

Not really a con per se but Microphone integration could be more efficient given the stability the platform provides.īlueStacks is one of the oldest emulators for Android out there that are still active in the market.

That makes it easier to transfer files from the Windows filesystem to Emulator and vice-versa. You can browse folders present on Windows and install APKs directly without the intervention of the Play store.Įven the option of synchronizing folders between Windows and emulator for a variety of purposes is provided.

Cross-platform installation of apps is a bliss.

Key-mapping can help gamers play games with a variety of onscreen controls on the snap of a finger.

You can set the amount of RAM, Screen resolution, FPS, and graphics engine to be used by the emulator according to your machine’s capabilities.Ĭustom DNS, Root mode, and Cache performance policy can also be changed according to user’s requirements.

Customizability: The emulator is flexible in terms of general resource usage.

The emulator is already keyboard-mouse compatible to an extent, worked with most of the games without any hiccup. It comes in handy when playing FPS, RPG or any game that requires multiple button control. When you press that key or push a button, the controls or app present on that part of the screen gets pressed/triggered. What Key-Mapping does is that you can put markers anywhere on the screen and assign a keyboard key or mouse button.

One of the hot-selling points of this emulator is Key Mapping. Honestly, I wouldn’t worry unless I’m running on 2 GIG of RAM and a Pentium 4 processor which really can’t handle multi-tasking. The emulator comes pre-loaded with some third-party apps, preferably the ones sponsoring them so can’t really a complaint.

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