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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by domain.com hey what's going on guys a Martin sang it from TechnoBuffalo and whoever thought the day would come when we could run native Android apps on our desktops there's a range of Android emulators already available on Windows but on Mac your options are much more limited fortunately BlueStacks recently release our application on Mac that'll allow users to run native Android apps on top of OS 10 think of it as a virtual OS running on top of your desktop the overall interface of BlueStacks is pretty simple the home page features an app store which shows recommended applications that have been tested to work with the emulator now these are split into different categories including top apps social and communications audio and video and tools and productivity just to name a few in order to properly setup BlueStacks you will need to sign in with your Google account which shouldn't take more than a few minutes once the initial setup is finished you're pretty much all set and you're ready to download apps from the Google Play Store a big concern that I had prior to installing BlueStacks was performance now since these apps are running natively on top of a virtual Android OS I wasn't sure how well these apps would perform since they weren't really developed for desktops but to my surprise apps work really well on a 2012 iMac with 32 gigabytes of RAM and an i7 processor apps like clash of clans Crossy road asphalt 8 and boom dots were smooth there's little no lag in any of the games that I played and I also tested out Instagram though I did run into some problems trying to upload a picture but nonetheless it's still pretty cool what's awesome about BlueStacks for Mac is that it supports Retina displays and also multi-touch gestures on Apple's trackpad clash of clans for example will take advantage of the multi-touch feature to zoom in and out of the field the main reason why I would want to install an Android emulator on my Mac is because of the games that are available on Android that aren't really available natively on PC or Mac there are thousands of great games that are available on Android and the ability to play them directly on my computer is pretty awesome previously running an emulator on a Mac required a virtual PC or a full fledged Windows OS via boot camp but having a native app on Mac negates the need to run a virtual OS on top of another virtual OS BlueStacks has been out on Windows for quite some time now and the company says it already has around 90 million users which is pretty impressive let me stop the video real fast and thank our friends over at domain.com it's a place to go win the next great idea hits you it's a one-stop shopping for all your domain names and web hosting email needs domain wants to hook our fans up with a pretty cool offer save 20% on domain names and web hosting if you use a coupon code TechnoBuffalo it's all one wording caps at domain.com checkout bluestacks is free for both Mac and Windows and if you guys want to check it out for yourselves we've included the links down below anyways thank you guys so much for watching and if you guys enjoy this video make sure to give it a thumbs up and we will see you guys in the next one