Change Orientation of Bluestack : portrait/landscape mode

Question

if using the emulator, press CTRL-F12 we will change portrait or landscape mode . How can i do this with BlueStack ?

Brumal

try to change view of `bluestack.. that could be useful – Chicanery

i'm irritated this is not the bluestack docs – Tarrance

Guys does this also fix the upside down images in bluestack? – Popish

Answer 1

Try This...

Go to your notification area in the taskbar.

Right click on Bluestacks Agent>Rotate Portrait Apps>Enabled.

There are several options available..

a. Automatic - Selected By Default - It will rotate the app player in portrait mode for portrait apps.

b. Disabled - It will force the portrait apps to work in landscape mode.

c. Enabled - It will force the portrait apps to work in portrait mode only.

This May help you..

Loosing

what key should i press to rotate? i have enabled the Rotate Portrait Apps – Drawback

I'm searching for a way to rotate the window by force (manual by the user). Not to enable rotation by apps. – Allantoid

There is no Bluestacks Agent on the notification area. There is only "App player online" and the only option is Exit. – Whit

I can't find the agent on mac – Pontius

@Whit same here. I installed Rotation control app which worked fine. M.Zain suggested that in another answer. – Walton

i don't see any "bluestacks agent" , and I tried right clicking on everything in the win10 window border and nothing shows any rotation options. – Hibernaculum

@DavidJeske This is very old answer and Bluestacks have been changed so much after that. I am not using Bluestacks any more. Please check another answer. – Chicanery

Answer 2

This works for me for BlueStacks 4:

• Install "Rotation Control" app
• Enable it to appear onto taskbar; optionally with system start
• Whenever you want to rotate the screen, just pull down the task bar, and give it a go

Horned

So awesome! Thank you – Newsom

Should be voted as the best answer considering it helps in far more use cases. – Lundberg

Answer 3

Here are the step:

1. Install the Nova theme in bluestack
2. go into Nova setting -> look and feel -> screen orientation -> Force Portrait -> go to Home screen

You are done! :)

Chungchungking

Answer 4

The newest version of BlueStacks has the ability to rotate the screen. Open the app and there's an icon in the lower right to rotate.

Champac

Answer 5

New version 4.100.x.xxxx

Try this:

More Apps > Android Settings > Accessibility > Auto-rotate screen = Enabled

Airstrip

Answer 6

You could also change resolution of your bluestacks emulator. For example from 800x1280 to 1280x800

Here are instructions for how to change the screen resolution.

To change screen resolution in BlueStacks Android emulator you need to edit two registry items:

1. Run regedit.exe

2. Set new resolution (in decimal):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BlueStacks\Guests\Android\FrameBuffer\0\Height

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BlueStacks\Guests\Android\FrameBuffer\0\Width

Kill all BlueStacks processes.

Restart BlueStacks

Deadlock

Link is broken. – Feeler

Answer 7

On a newer version, go to setting advance, display, display resolution then change it to portrait and restart the blue stack app.

Taliataliaferro

Answer 8

I install go launcher on mine, (Windows 8)=> preferences => Screens => Screen orientation => vertical (disable QWE keyboard)

Contentment