You’ll then have to link BlueStacks with your Google account so it can download apps to your device. You’ll have to sign in with an existing Google account or create a new one, so BlueStacks can access Google Play and get apps from there. Tap the app’s icon and BlueStacks will prompt you to set up a Google account before you can start installing apps. Search for the mobile messaging app you want to use. BlueStacks is available for Mac, but we didn’t test it there.Ĭlick (or tap, if your Windows PC has a touch screen) the Search icon at the top-left corner of the BlueStacks app player screen. That’s because Android’s openness makes it possible to emulate Android apps on Windows, whereas there’s no competing solution that would allow you to run iPhone or iPad apps on Windows.įirst, download BlueStacks and install it on your Windows PC. You’ll note that we’re using the Android apps here, not the iPhone apps. In a nutshell, it’s the best way to run Android apps on Windows other solutions for running Android apps on Windows are nowhere near as good. As a bonus, running the Android versions gets us a touch-optimized interface, so these apps will be more at home on touch-enabled Windows 8 devices.īlueStacks is an Android emulator. To get around this, we’ll be using a trick that allows us to run the Android versions of these apps on Windows. If you’re lucky, your service of choice will offer a Windows solution - like Viber’s desktop app – but most don’t. But you can use them on your computer anyway. No web interface, no Windows desktop app, not even a Windows 8 app. Which one is popular depends on which country you live in, but most of them have one thing in common: They don’t run on Windows.
Mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp, Viber, Kik Messenger, Kakao Talk, Line, and BlackBerry Messenger, which recently launched on Android & iOS, are all the rage these days.
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