If, for example, you start Temple Run, the arrow keys on your keyboard will correspond to touchscreen gestures, and two other keys will serve to turn or ‘tilt’ the device to control your character. While there is already a version of BlueStacks for Windows 8 that allows you to use touch controls, the keyboard and mouse also offer a perfectly good experience in many cases, with a pop-up info box explaining the control equivalencies. The biggest problem with this sort of software is usually translating touchscreen controls to devices with different control systems.

Play touchscreen games with your keyboard and mouse When you try to install one of these, it will recommend that you connect the program to your Android account if you have one so you can access Google Play and download the app from there, which doesn’t prevent you from installing any APK file from another source.(Did someone say Uptodown?) The truly interesting thing is its ease of use, with the file type being associated with your operating system, whether it be Windows or Mac, so when you run the file from your explorer it will automatically be installed via BlueStacks. BlueStacks currently supports more than 400,000 apps, meaning it’s possible to play games that were until now exclusive to mobile, such as Clash of Clans, the Asphalt driving saga, and the virtual pet game Pou. If you want to install one of them, you just have to double-click on it in both the main menu and the program’s search tool.

The main menu is just an enormous list of some of the supported apps organized by category. The installation process does not require any annoying setup procedures. After several years of changes and improvements, today it can be deemed the best method for emulating Android on your PC and getting a use experience at the level of the original platform.

This isn’t a complete emulator rather, its interface is oriented toward running mobile apps using non-touch control systems. In 2011 the first public beta was launched for BlueStacks, a software that can run Android apps on both Windows and Mac operating systems.

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