{"id":3862,"date":"2018-11-11T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2018-11-11T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T17:35:16","slug":"setting-the-screen-width-and-height-for-bluestacks-on-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3862","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Screen Width and Height for BlueStacks on a Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no way provided to set the screen width and height for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluestacks.com\/\">BlueStacks<\/a> Android emulator. In fact, there&#8217;s no settings menu at all.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s write-ups how to get around that problem on Windows, but not on the Mac. Hence this post.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>After installing BlueStacks, edit the file <kbd>Library\/Preferences\/com.BlueStacks.AppPlayer.plist<\/kbd> in your home directory. If the file isn&#8217;t there, try starting then quitting the BlueStacks.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure BlueStacks is not running.<\/li>\n<li>Open the file in your favorite text or XML editor.<\/li>\n<li>Locate the\u00a0<code>&lt;key&gt;FrameBuffer&lt;\/key&gt;<\/code> element. Everything you need to change is in the dictionary below it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The items to change are <kbd>Width<\/kbd>, <kbd>Height<\/kbd>, <kbd>WindowWidth<\/kbd>, and <kbd>WindowHeight<\/kbd>. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no way provided to set the screen width and height for the BlueStacks Android emulator. In fact, there&#8217;s no settings menu at all. There&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}