How to run android apps in landscape mode and set preffered sizes in bluestacks emulator

android landscape-portrait bluestacks
Samitha Chathuranga picture Samitha Chathuranga · Nov 8, 2013 · Viewed 37.8k times · Source

I use bluestacks as the emulator for debuging and testing android apps with eclipse. But the problem is that I cannot run apps in portrait mode in bluestacks. All the apps run just in landscape mode even I "changed app size" in settings to both "tablet" view and "default" view. (I am worried that my bluestacks version-beta version- has only those two modes and the "phone" view and "Large phone" view is missing- what is the reason for it? Does original versions have more views?) However once when I changed the "LinkedIn" app view to "default", it was displayed in portrait mode on the emulator, but the whole emulator had rotated 90 degrees, so that was no use..! Please help me. I want bluestacks in Portrait !!!

Answer

user2979194 picture user2979194 · Nov 11, 2013

in the system tray, right click on blue stacks icon in the menu, select third option "Rotate Portrait Apps" select enable.

next time ONLY PORTRAIT APP works in portrait mode.. Try the game DOTS to test

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