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Bluestacks 4 is the latest flagship version of the popular BlueStacks App Player. Launched in September 2018, the latest release comes with a host of features that make it one of the best candidates to choose among a multitude of free android emulators that exist today.
For starters, Bluestacks app player offers a virtualized android environment that allows you to play your favorite android apps on your PC or Mac. It is also used by app developers to test applications designed to run on the Android operating system.
Thanks to support by tech giants like Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD, Bluestacks is more than just a standard android emulator. The fourth edition of the player comes with a plethora of features that transform your PC into a superb android gaming device.
This article highlights some fascinating features that Bluestacks 4 brings to your laptop.
A striking UI
Bluestacks 4 comes with an attractive modern user interface that favors gamers and Android users alike. For the gamer, Bluestacks delivers a core gaming function as part of the central UI. Links to trending games and recent notifications are well within reach, and customizable features like the Bluestacks Store and Quests are available to the gamer’s fulfillment.
Icons of basic apps like Google Play Store are located in the home screen to make it easier for the user to access, although nothing is really far from the user’s hands. Everything seems to have been organized with the user in mind.
What’s more, you can customize resolution, DPI, and graphics mode of the bluestacks display to suit your taste.
Graphics mode
Bluestacks 4 supports both Direct X and OpenGL. The OpenGL option is especially good for gamers who want nothing but crisp graphics. This cross-language, cross-platform API interacts with your laptop’s GPU to achieve hardware-accelerated rendering.
Performance
Bluestacks 4 is 8X faster than Bluestacks 3 and 6X faster than Samsung Galaxy S9+.
However, performance depends on your hardware, so laptops with better CPUs and GPUs will do much better.
A laptop with a RAM capacity of 8MB and a CPU with at least 3 cores will do the job. Bluestacks allows you to set the number of CPU cores, memory, and frame rate that bluestacks will exploit. You can tweak these from the bluestacks settings menu to give your laptop a bit of headroom in performance.
A functional key mapping tool
If you’ve ever played android games on PC emulators, you’ll appreciate the value of key mapping.
The key mapping tool in bluestacks 4 gives you the option of assigning a personalized control scheme to each game. All you have to do is open the game you want to personalize, and the key mapping tool will appear at the bottom. Next, assign any keyboard button to a specific function in the game. The process of adding new controls is as easy as “drag-and-drop.”
By default, the Bluestacks 4 key mapping tool uses the WASD scheme.
Android N (7.1.2)
It’s hard to come by a free android emulator that’s compatible with the latest Mobile OS. That’s one of the reasons bluestacks has always been special. With Android N, Bluestacks 4 provides a wide radius of compatibility for running high-performance and graphics-intensive games on your PC. You get a taste of faster gameplay and crisp graphics on a bigger screen while saving your resources.
Bluestacks 4 Multiple Instances
Do you play multiple games using multiple Google Play Accounts at once? Bluestacks 4 provides a multi-instance manager that allows you to run many instances of bluestacks at once. It’s like having several functional phones at your disposal only that this time they’re extremely fast and embedded in your PC. Gamers who want to enjoy higher chances of earning rewards in RPGs will reap most from this feature.
A useful File Manager
Bluestacks 4 has a built-in file manager that you can use to manage your photos, images, audio, and videos files. Not only can you explore the SD card but also preview your media, and even import and export files to your PC.
Version 4 of Bluestacks also comes with a computer file manager that lets you navigate through files as if you were navigating a real file system on a PC. Computer File Manager is an independent app that you can install via Google Play store.
Another file management app included in the Bluestacks 4 download package is Google’s own Files Go app. This file manager gives you access to the root, SD card, system, and user apps, as well as all media files and documents. The most exciting feature in Files Go is the ability to share files between Bluestacks and PC through File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
Bluestacks Notifications
The notification feature in bluestacks 4 is fully customizable. You can choose to show or hide notifications for each app, and that does not limit you from using custom notification settings for installed apps.
Bluestacks Extras
Bluestacks points and cards have never been fuller of zip than they are in bluestacks 4. Since the release of Engine version 2.52.66.8704, bluestacks users have been receiving pika points for merely launching the emulator every day and playing games. Pika points can be redeemed for a one-month bluestacks premium subscription or other rewards (Google Play Gift cards, Gaming Gear, themes, and T-shirts). You can access your Pika Points via the Bluestacks World Icon. Unfortunately, Bluestacks World will be no more after September 30, 2019.
Still, Bluestacks has much more to offer. Content creators who join the bluestacks Affiliate program can piggyback on the popular Bluestacks brand to generate more traffic and earn money with each game install referral.
The bluestacks community is getting bigger each day as more mind-blowing games launch, and more players join in.
Is Bluestacks really free?
Bluestacks’ basic features are completely free, but you can gain access to more advanced features by buying a monthly subscription. Some premium features in Bluestacks include a special premium priority support channel, full-blown wallpaper customization, ad-free experience, and ability to use one premium subscription in multiple PCs.
How many people use Bluestacks?
If the user statistics are anything to go by, we can conclude that Bluestacks is the most popular Android emulator to date. Bluestacks boasts over 300 million users. The app player reached its 100-million download mark in December 2015.
There are many more features that Bluestacks 4 has to offer such as a camera manager, screenshot tool, browser, android settings, photo viewer, and a rich app center. So be sure to check it out yourself using the download link below.
Author: Victor Wachanga
Writer, 3D artist, and thinker. Tech is fascinating. Tech is scary| Type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Virtualization, mobile software |
| Genre | |
| Founded | April 25, 2009; 11 years ago[1][2][3] |
| Founders | Rosen Sharma, Jay Vaishnav, Suman Saraf[4][3] |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Worldwide | |
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| Products | App Player, GamePop |
| Website | www.bluestacks.com |
BlueStacks Client with Androidhome screen open as of September 2014. | |
| Stable release | |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows 7 or later;[6]macOS Sierra or later[7] |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64 |
| Size | 442 MB |
| Available in | 48 languages |
| Type | |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | www.bluestacks.com |
BlueStacks is an American technology company that produces the BlueStacks App Player and other cloud-based cross-platform products. The BlueStacks App Player is designed to enable Android applications to run on PCs running Microsoft Windows and Apple's macOS. The company was founded in 2009 by Jay Vaishnav, Suman Saraf, and Rosen Sharma, former CTO at McAfee and a board member of Cloud.com.
Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint, Samsung, Intel, Qualcomm, Citrix, Radar Partners, Ignition Partners, AMD, and others.[8]
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The company was announced May 25, 2011, at the Citrix Synergy conference in San Francisco. Citrix CEO Mark Templeton demonstrated an early version of BlueStacks onstage and announced that the companies had formed a partnership. The public alpha version of App Player was launched on October 11, 2011.[9] App Player exited beta on June 7, 2014.
App Player[edit]
The App Player, software that virtualizes an Android OS, can be downloaded in versions for Windows 10 and macOS. The software's basic features are free to download and use. Advanced optional features require a paid monthly subscription.[10] The company claims the App Player can run 1.5 million Android apps as of November 2019.[11] As of November 2019, BlueStacks have been downloaded over 210 million times.[12] App Player features mouse, keyboard, and external touchpad controls.
BlueStacks for Mac[edit]
On June 27, 2012, the company released an alpha-1 version of its App Player software for macOS,[13] while the beta version was released on December 27, 2012.
In April 2015, BlueStacks, Inc. announced that a new version of App Player for macOS, 2.0, was in development, which was released in July.[14]
BlueStacks 2[edit]
In December 2015, BlueStacks, Inc. released the new version BlueStacks 2.0[15] which lets users run multiple Android applications simultaneously.[16] BlueStacks 2.0 was also available for Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later, till 2018.
BlueStacks TV (BTV)[edit]
On April 7, 2016, the company released BlueStacks TV which integrated Twitch.tv directly into the BlueStacks App Player.[17] This addition allows users to stream their apps to Twitch without the need for extra hardware or software. BlueStacks released Facebook Live integration in September 2016, allowing users to stream their gameplay to their Facebook profiles, Pages they control, or Facebook Groups they belong to.[18]
BlueStacks 3[edit]
In July 2017, BlueStacks released BlueStacks 3 based on a brand new engine and front-end design.[19] BlueStacks 3 added App Center which personalizes game suggestions, an account system, chat, new keymapping interface, and multi-instance. Multi-instance allows users to launch multiple BlueStacks windows using either the same or different Google Play account.
BlueStacks 3N[edit]
On January 19, 2018, BlueStacks announced the release of the BlueStacks + N Beta which runs on Android 7 (Android Nougat) and claimed to be the first and only Android gaming platform to have Android 7 at the time, since the majority of Android emulators ran Android 4.4 (KitKat), including prior BlueStacks versions.[20] This beta version is powered by an upgraded 'HyperG' graphics engine allowing BlueStacks to utilize the full array of Android 7 APIs
BlueStacks 4[edit]
On September 18, 2018, BlueStacks announced the release of its latest flagship version, BlueStacks 4. BlueStacks 4 benchmarks 6-8x faster than every major mobile phone according to the Antutu benchmark.[21] BlueStacks 4 also includes dynamic resource management which only initializes the required Android libraries thus freeing resources. A new dock and search offer a clean user interface. New AI powered key-mapping tool auto maps keys in supported games with key customization also available for further tweaking. In addition, BlueStacks 4 supports[22] both 32-bit and 64-bit version of Android 7.1.2 Nougat.
Development for macOS has been restarted, and version 4 is currently available from the website as of November 2019, first released for Mac in January 2019.[23]
BlueStacks 4 64-Bit Beta[edit]
On January 17, 2019, BlueStacks released a 64-bit version of BlueStacks 4 via its early access program.[24] This version runs on a 64-bit version of Android 7.1.2 which allows for improved performance, and more efficient memory usage. The prerequisites for running this build include running a 64-bit version of Windows 8 or later, with virtualization enabled, and Hyper-V disabled. This 64-bit release allows the installation and usage of ARM64-v8a android applications.
Minimum requirements[edit]
Current minimum requirements for App Player for Windows include: Windows 7 or higher, 2 GB or higher system memory, 5 GB of hard drive space, administrator rights, and an Intel or AMD processor.[6] BlueStacks clashes with the BitDefender antivirus software.[25] An update to the latest graphic card driver version is also recommended.
Minimum requirements for macOS are: macOS Sierra or higher, 4 GB RAM, 4 GB disk space, and a model newer than 2014. Please note that BlueStacks has explicitly said that they have not supported Apple Silicon yet.[26]
GamePop[edit]
On May 9, 2013, the subscription service GamePop was announced.[27] It allows users to play as many as 500 mobile games on TV. On July 23, 2014 Samsung announced [8] it had invested in and was backing GamePop. This brought total outside investment in BlueStacks to $26 million.[28]
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See also[edit]
Bluestacks For Macbook
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External links[edit]
- Official website