Re: Bluestacks Download Android
Celena Holtzberg
You can download BlueStacks 5 from the links on this page or from our website bluestacks.com. Download the .exe file and complete the setup within minutes to start playing your favorite mobile games on PC.
I have recently shifted to android studio. I would like to know how I can test my apps in Bluestacks app player. I had already had the bluestacks connected and working with eclipse using adb connect localhost:5555 but it doesn't seem to work with android studio. Didn't find any help anywhere. If anyone has done this, please help.
first open bluestacks and go to settings > preferences > check the Enable Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and press Change path button, then select adb path. (default location: %LocalAppData%\Android\sdk\platform-tools)
These are all old answers, nothing works for me till I finally come out with a solution of my own.for a much later version (I'm using the 5.6x version, latest at the time of posting), just go to Settings in bluestack, click advanced, toggle on DB and run adb connect localhost:[port] with port being the number shown in the ADB information page (the one I underlined). Voila, you should automatically see another mobile device available on the Android Studio
Try in command prompt "netstat -anb" with administration privileges. Check if there is 127.0.0.1 5555 Estebalished.If everything is OK then temporary disable firewall and type"adb connect 127.0.0.1:5555" should work.
i too have also gotten the error "connection could not be made as the target machine actively refused it" recently (when i tried to connect to adb using command prompt)Trying with -> adb connect localhost:5555 or adb connect 127.0.0.1:5555 would not work. You need to identify your bluestack device ip address. You can identify the ip address using the preferences in your bluestack emulator setting. (where you enabled ADB in bluestack).
I did the following to resolve the error you had encountered and successfully connect Android studio to Bluestack. please try the following steps. (I am using windows 10, Android Studio 4.0.1, Bluestacks 4.200.)
i don't know if you fixed the issue or not but it's pretty simple to use bluestacks, if you see this screen when you open it like this all you have to do is run the app in android. it happens where android doesn't detect it because it wont see it as a device you either wait or try to get that screen (that sort of refreshs)
Hey @Erjola_Mema
I think automating bluestacks might be complex the ram will use the emulator there are chances the UiPath will crash it is not optimal to do this with bluestack but smart of you to think like this.
By using the actvities available in the above mentioned package you can able to get verification code & can able to use it where it is required. By suing this you can able to automate without Blue stacks in PC
Thanks for the reply ,
I have a verification code with a text message in the phone number.
But I was another test
I download the message text app ,and try to spy it with the UiPath activities and it seems okay.
I made some tests... I put 1 picture in the C:\ProgramData\BlueStacks\UserData\SharedFolder\ and found it in the bluestacks file search. But when I see the FULL path... Surprise MTF: it was in mnt\windows\bstsharedfolder (NOT IN mnt\sdcard\windows\bstsharedfolder)!
With the app EZ File Explorer I found in this 'mnt' folder, this another WINDOWS folder (before the sdcard folder of the tip above).SURPRISE! All the folders (bstsharedfolder, documents, pictures...) was there, WITH MY WINDOWS FILES!So, all I did was copy and past in this bstsharedfolder. Now C:\ProgramData\BlueStacks\UserData\SharedFolder\ has all my BST files that I need!
If anyone is still struggling with this and needs a quick, non-permanent solution, you can also go into the "Media Manager" application in BlueStacks and select "Import from Windows". That seemed to grab everything and update the media cache without issue.
HI I would like some thoughts on bluestacks.com I would like to try out the emulator and see if I can play games on my laptop. I would really like to play wheel of fortune on bluestacks if I can but I have never used bluestacks emulator to play games on my windows 11 laptop before. So I was just looking for some options on if it is a good idea to use bluestacks to connect to my google account and get games from the google store to download games to bluestacks. I was just wanting to now if this is a safe thing to do since I have never download an emulator before to play android games on my windows pc. I have never owned an android phone I have heard of android phones though. I was just curious what people have to say about downloading bluestacks emulator and downloading games from the google play store is it a good idea to do this on a windows 11 laptop. Thanks. waiting for information and Answers.
Bluestacks is an emulator. Bluestacks probably is not able to store data from the app to the PC. Bluestacks has no internal storage in itself as far as I can determine so there is no place you can send a file using the File control.
Hello, good day to anyone reading this.
I have made an app that reads information from a file thats being written by a Python code.
The python code extracts information from Google Calendar and then writes certain things to a regular txt file.
Now to run the Mit App i need an emulator for it to run on my laptop, but here comes the problem.
I can edit wthe file with Python no problem there BUT i do not know how I can make the app read that specific path to the file. I know where its located, i have found the sdCard folder but whenever i go into bluestacks i cannot find it when i check the internal memory. All i need is for the app to read an external file, thats located in bluestacks named 'test_text.txt' there is a shared folder with windows and in there i can see and edit the file in question. I just need the path to that file for the appmaker.
This is what it all looks like in the blocks
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This is the bluestacks file location
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Iv looked everywhere on the forum and internet, cant find anything.
All i want is for the MIT app to read from the sharedfolder file in bluestacks from windows.
I use the regular file block to READ from an external file of the app itself.
There is a shared folder within bluestacks, in that folder is a txt file that i want to READ in the app.
How do you find that path to put into the app?
Everything i tried says that said directory doesnt exist
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The app does what it needs to do, i just need to be able to read from a more specfic file, then /thisfile
but everytime i try a path that should lead to the shared folder it says that the file couldnt be created, i assume this is because the path is incorrect. When i do just /testfile it works just fine but i cannot find the path to the normal sd card interface for python
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the last file you see n this list is the file that the app reads and edits.
I need that file path for python OR i need to be able to read from the shared folder in this menu
The txt file is the file i imported to bluestacks SD storage so i could test it. The file i NEED to use is located in the shared folder of windows and bluestacks and is accesible through both. The file is already there by default and is deleted when i press button 1 and immediately recreated because i need that file empty.
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