{"id":893,"date":"2022-01-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:58:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:58:59","slug":"weekend-wisdom-bluestacks-nox-and-all-that-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/21\/weekend-wisdom-bluestacks-nox-and-all-that-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Wisdom: BlueStacks, Nox, and All That Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019m sure you know, many applications and techniques in our hobby require a mobile phone and maybe a particular application running on that phone. When it\u2019s time to scale a deal that needs a mobile platform, don\u2019t let the hardware you carry around with you be a limiting factor. You probably already know that <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/11\/on-the-importance-of-cell-phone-burners\/\">I\u2019m a big fan of burner cell phones<\/a>, but that doesn\u2019t mean that I carry six phones everywhere I go (even though I might use six phone numbers to scale a deal).<\/p>\n<p>Even if you\u2019re not trying to scale, even a single cell phone is annoying for lots of reasons: copy and paste are hard, you don\u2019t have a full size keyboard, sometimes you get a phone call in the middle of a transaction, or your toddler wants to play a game on your phone. <\/p>\n<p>Scaling and working around mobile phone limitations is easy with three Android emulators that run on Windows, Mac, or Linux:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a aria-label=\"Nox (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a aria-label=\"BlueStacks (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bluestacks.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueStacks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/studio\">Android Studio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each one of these will let you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emulate multiple devices<\/li>\n<li>Have multiple profiles<\/li>\n<li>Set your \u201cGPS location\u201d to hide that you\u2019re on <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toweroftheamericas.com\/skies-over-texas-4d-theater-ride\/\">The Skies over Texas<\/a> for the fourth time<\/li>\n<li>Use your computer\u2019s keyboard, mouse, and monitor<\/li>\n<li>Cut and paste like a human<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard from a couple of you that a barrier to using emulators is two factor authentication: when you get a text message code as part of logging into a service or for transferring a big dump of cash. Don\u2019t let that stop you from scaling though, there\u2019s no reason you can\u2019t have the physical phone nearby to receive the code and then type that directly into the emulator.<\/p>\n<p>Have a nice weekend friends!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3652\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/map.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/map.jpeg 625w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/map-300x229.jpeg 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Pictured: An interactive map to set your location in an Android emulator.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019m sure you know, many applications and techniques in our hobby require a mobile phone and maybe a particular application running on that phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scaling","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7114,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/7114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}