Pleco for MacBook based on M3

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Dapi Ocelp

Member
Hi,
It seems that some people have successfully installed and used Pleco on Apple computers based on M1.
Any trick for using Pleco on a MacBook based on M3 ?
Actually, the App Store related to such machine does not show Pleco, but proposes instead Chinese Stroke Order Writing, Chinese Memorization, Pinyin Helper, and KTdict Chinese Dictionary.
:-(
Thank you.
 
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Dapi Ocelp

Member
FYI, I have tried to install BlueStacks for unabling the use of Android apps on MacOS. I've got the following message ...
"Your machine has new Apple Silicon processor which is currently not supported by BlueStacks"
:-(
 
mikelove

mikelove

皇帝
Staff member
Not something we officially support at the moment; we do plan to release an official Mac version pretty soon, but it'll be a separate app, probably requiring an additional purchase to use (possibly as part of an add-on that also enables Mac-like features like keyboard and pointer lookups on iPad), and we don't plan to offer it through the Mac App Store but only through our website.
 
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天地間

Member
Meantime, do you have a Native Windows 10 and 11 version which we can install on a PC without Android emulators such as MEmu? Thanks.
 
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Dapi Ocelp

Member
Thanks, Mike. All I have to do is to wait (hopefully, not too long) for purchasing the future Mac compatible version then.
:)
 
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TheBigPaff

Member
mikelove said:
Not something we officially support at the moment; we do plan to release an official Mac version pretty soon, but it'll be a separate app, probably requiring an additional purchase to use (possibly as part of an add-on that also enables Mac-like features like keyboard and pointer lookups on iPad), and we don't plan to offer it through the Mac App Store but only through our website.
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how soon is "pretty soon"? very excited for the mac port!
 
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boolean8

Member
Dapi Ocelp said:
Hi,
It seems that some people have successfully installed and used Pleco on Apple computers based on M1.
Any trick for using Pleco on a MacBook based on M3 ?
Actually, the App Store related to such machine does not show Pleco, but proposes instead Chinese Stroke Order Writing, Chinese Memorization, Pinyin Helper, and KTdict Chinese Dictionary.
:-(
Thank you.
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Of course, it's not as handy as a native mac bundle, but the android version of Pleco runs just fine on apple silicon macs under the android emulator that comes with google´s Andoid Studio.
When creating the virtual device make sure you pick an ARM64 image (it's the default on M1/M2) and that the image has the Play Store enabled. If you pick an image without the play store you can still sideload Pleco manually using the APK from pleco.com
 
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