As we all know, Blackberry currently launched their official Messaging app BlackBerry Messenger that is BBM for Android and IOS powered Smartphones. We can see the popularity of this app by its download after the first day of launch. BBM is downloaded on Millions of Android Devices only on First Day of Release. Even people not having smartphones or say Android Phones are planning to Install this on Virtual Machines like BlueStacks, Android Emulator, etc. But there is problem with the version of BlueStacks Player. The version supported by BBM messenger is above than 4.0 that is Ice-Cream Sandwitch. But Bluestacks support applications only which are compatible with lower than GingerBread Version that is 2.3.
So now the problem is how to install BBM. This problem can't be resolved using BlueStacks, but Android emulator can be used to Install BBM. Because we can use any version on Android Emulator provided by Android in ADT (Android Development Toolkit). We just need to download the latest version using our SDK Manager which was provided in ADT. Now the problem is how to install it on Emulator. So, don't worry, we can use platform-tools provided by Android in ADT. In platform-tools, their is tool named ADB that is Android Debug Bridge. We can ADB to interact with the Emulator Shell. Using Shell, we can do anything with Emulator like Installing apps or Uninstalling apps.
To install on Emulator, we need to download apk file first.- Start emulator first using Android AVD manager.
- After starting Emulator, open CMD and change the directory to the platform-tools in the installed directory of android sdk.
- After entering the platform tools directory use this command.
- ADB install <path of the apk file> and Enter
- You are done...
Just wait for the updated version of BlueStacks player which supports apps like BBM.
Otherwise you can use emulator, that is best way to use any kind of application.
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Can u please tell the installing steps in more detail?
ReplyDeleteKind of a noob here.
Because I generally use Bluestacks.
i hav installed bbm but its looping at setting up...any solution for dat
ReplyDeleteMost probably you are not using the official version of BBM. This problem will be resolved if you use Official release of BBM app.
DeleteHi guys, i have tried this and at home it works great on my open internet connection. The issue i'm experiencing is that at work, we have a linux proxy server for WWW access and the darn simulator does not access the web at all, therefore its useless because I cant setup the proxy username/pwd on it to allow access!
ReplyDeleteAny solution to this? email me please: sathishzn(at)gmail.com
Add an exception for emulator in Network properties, then it'll work f9
Deletewhere i can take Andriod Debug Bridge? I'm using vm box and genymotion
ReplyDeleteADB will be in /bin/androidsdk/platform-tools for Linux and For Windows, Program Files/androidsdk/platform-tools
Deletewhy the avd loading so long when started? -.-
ReplyDeleteMost probably you are using less value for RAM.
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