Setting the Screen Width and Height for BlueStacks on a Mac
Published at 09:35 on 11 November 2018
There’s no way provided to set the screen width and height for the BlueStacks Android emulator. In fact, there’s no settings menu at all.
There’s write-ups how to get around that problem on Windows, but not on the Mac. Hence this post.
- After installing BlueStacks, edit the file Library/Preferences/com.BlueStacks.AppPlayer.plist in your home directory. If the file isn’t there, try starting then quitting the BlueStacks.
- Make sure BlueStacks is not running.
- Open the file in your favorite text or XML editor.
- Locate the
<key>FrameBuffer</key>element. Everything you need to change is in the dictionary below it.
The items to change are Width, Height, WindowWidth, and WindowHeight. The first two parameters control the size that the Android apps see. The second two control the size of the window displayed on your Mac.