The far-right button, for Settings, leads to a menu in which you can switch on or off syncing between your Android device and BlueStacks change the language (BlueStacks supports 39) adjust the ways that the on-screen keyboard and your computer's actual keyboard work when used with an app running on BlueStacks manage apps (here you can uninstall apps) and set the resolution an app will be displayed at when you launch it (the available adjustments are 'small phone,' 'large phone' and 'tablet'). (On Android devices running the latest version of the OS, Honeycomb, this order is reversed: Back, Home, Menu.) But it's curious why BlueStacks' developers did not order them in the same sequence found on most Android devices: Menu, Home, Back. Three buttons below the display window represent the standard main buttons of a typical Android device, from left to right: Back, Menu and Home.

Clicking and dragging down on this bar reveals the latest notifications (such as informing you of any updates available for installed apps, and SMS alerts) - this bar works like the Android OS' notifications bar. There's a search box below these icons which you use to find apps in the app stores.Ī bar runs along the top of this display window, and icons representing apps that are currently running in BlueStacks are displayed on it. Double-click on an app's icon, and it runs within this display window. When you launch the actual BlueStacks application, a main display window opens showing icons of the apps installed on it and the app stores. (Google's own Android app store, Play Store, isn't listed.) Within App Stores, the Amazon 'Appstore' is listed along with two lesser known ones: 1Mobile Market and GetJar. Among Popular Downloads, there's Angry Birds, Facebook and YouTube available to download and install. It lists icons for 'My Apps,' 'Popular Downloads,' 'App Stores' and 'Cloud Connect.'Ĭlicking My Apps opens a window showing icons of the apps installed in BlueStacks. There's a widget set along the top of the Windows desktop that works like the Mac OS X's Dock program launcher. Upon complete installation, BlueStacks places two shortcuts on the Windows desktop: 'Start BlueStacks' and 'Android Apps.' (Android Apps opens a folder containing shortcuts that launch the individual Android apps installed in BlueStacks.) A BlueStacks icon utility is also placed in the Notification Area of Windows.

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