The Bluestacks icon in the middle is essentially the home key. The left-facing arrow in the bottom left is a back button right next to it is a menu button. There are a number of icons at the bottom of the screen.
Once Bluestacks has loaded, you’ll be presented with a three-tiered screen offering My Apps, Top Charts and 1-Click Sync. My Apps shows you all the apps you currently have installed, top charts offers some popular app suggestions, and 1-Click Sync lets you transfer apps from your Android device to Bluestacks. Start Bluestacks and move onto step 2! 2. Setting up Bluestacks dmg, then drag the app to your Applications directory as normal. For the purposes of this guide, we’ll go with the old version (and we’ll update it when the new version is available!) However, they did release an OS X client in the past, and this can be downloaded here or here. If you visit the Bluestacks site as of April 2015, you’ll see a message that they’re currently working on their OS X client, and you can sign up to be alerted when it’s finished. The first step, fairly obviously, is to install Bluestacks. (Other alternatives which we’ve covered earlier include running Android in a VM or running Android apps in Chrome using the ARC Welder.) 1. BlueStacks is one of the few ways to run Android apps on Mac OS X.
