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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