How to play Clash of Clans on Mac with Genymotion

Till now, there are 3 ways to play Clash of Clans on Mac:

  • Install Windows via Boot Camp then use Bluestacks.
  • Install Windows on virtualization software like VMWare then use Bluestacks.
  • Use Virtualbox and Genymotion.

There are many players wanna play this amazing game on their Mac. So in this post, I will show you how to play Clash of Clans on Mac OS X step-by-step. The third is the easiest and simplest way! I am going to talk about it.

You can install Bluestacks on Mac, but you can’t install Clash of Clans on it. I do not know why. Please reply if you know how to fix it.
Play Clash of Clans on Mac

 Install and play Clash of Clans on Mac OS X:

    1. Download Genymotion:
      Download
    2. Download VirtualBox for Mac:
      Download
    3. Download Genymotion ARM Translation (do not extract):
      Download
      Mirrors: http://goo.gl/IpB8S4
    4. Download Google Play (do not extract) for Android 4.3:
      Download
    5. Install both Genymotion and VirtualBox and open them.
    6. At Genymotion window, click Add to add new device, choose Samsung Galaxy S4 4.3 (strongly recommend) then click next to install.
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    7. (Optional) Open Virtualbox. In Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, go to Settings ~> System ~> Display and set the Video Memory option up to 128MB. Click OK button to save this setting.
    8. Click Run to run this phone:
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    9. Install it like your smartphone, use your Google ID for recovering your Clash of Clans later.
    10. Drag and drop Genymotion-ARM-Translation_v1.1.zip which you have downloaded onto your Genymotion VM homescreen, you will face this popup, just click OK.
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    11. Download apk file of ROM Toolbox Pro, drag and drop it onto your device to install. You can type “ROM Toolbox Pro apk” on Google to find it.
    12. Open ROM Toolbox Pro, choose Reboot for restarting your device:
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    13. After rebooting, drag and drop the gapps-kk-20130813-signed.zip file onto your device homescreen. Click OK when the popup show.
    14. Reboot your device again.
    15. Now you can use Google Play smoothly, search and install Clash of Clans:
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    16. Enjoy!

I have made a small tutorial video about this for all of you:

Hotkeys:

Zoom-in and zoom-out:

  • Hold Command button, Left click + Move mouse to the Left: Zoom In
  • Hold Command button, Left click + Move mouse to the Right: Zoom Out
  • Without mouse: Control button + Press trackpad and slide finger right or left.

Enter full-screen mode: Press Ctrl + Fn + F11.

Troubleshooting: Genymotion problems

How to fix Files successfully copied to: /sdcard/Download/ problem:

These days I’ve been getting some reports from you guys about this problem. Just follow these steps to fix it:

  1. Open Genymotion, start your Virtual Machine.Click on the Genymotion on your screen:fix-genymotion-problem-1
  2. Check the Always allow su access(bypass Superuser app) line:
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  3. Save
  4. Done!

If you cannot find Genymotion icon on your Home Screen:

  1. Download and install Root Explorer for you Virtual Machine.
  2. Open Root Explorer, go to your /sdcard/Download/ folder then extract the zip file of Google Play.
  3. Copy the extracted folder on top of your /system folder.
  4. Overwrite.
  5. Reboot your device and you should have Google Play now.

“An error occured while deploying the file. Error: device not found”

If you get the message “An error occured while deploying the file.
error: device not found” when trying to move the Google Play store (gapps-kk-20140105-signed.zip)

Create a new shared folder (any location will do, I chose downloads) from the Virtual Box settings and check the “auto-mount” box. Reboot the android device and try moving the file again.

Failed to import OVA file Problem:

To fix this problem, just open your Genymotion, go to Settings menu, at the Misc tab choose Clear cache and everything will be ok!

Have fun with Clash of Clans with your Mac!

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  3. I tried running Samsung Galaxy S4 4.3 and it won’t let me do google play because it says the browser is no longer supported. I tried running S4 4.4 and S5 4.4, but now there’s a different problem. I can run google play, but not cash of clans. It says my device isn’t supported. For some reason, google play thinks I’m running a Verizon Wireless Casio C8114G. Help me, please.

  21. Hello, This has worked for me for several months but yesterday (after about a minute of play time) I started to get an “Unfortunately, Clash of Clans has stopped” error. I get kicked out of the program each time I try to play. Any suggestions?? Thank you.

  28. i cannot get the google play store to install to the phone emulator. In the instructions its says gapps-kk-20130813-signed.zip but when I followed the link to install it in downloaded gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip. I didn’t think much of it until when I drug it to the home screen it transferred successfully but no google play store. What do I need to do?

  29. i have macbook pro mid 2009 with 4gb ram and processor with 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and graphic card with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB and my problem is that it running quite slow can you fix my problem

  30. For some reason my virtual device runs slow and would occasionally screen freeze when I play coc or any other game. Also, there would occasionally be no audio output. Here are snapshots of my mbp specs and settings for my virtual box. Any suggestions that could fix these problems? I’ve tried lowering video memory, and different settings for the https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c7c88d0623bda6e65bcbe8aa6b54485b7cce6ea1f8afe8dd7edeb05476d2a68d.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7750c6599ee364284dd001951062bf647b4a98e32c1e33d03acb3eeaccb4cf9d.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f8fe763e4c818706972da1d2100e99ccafad6d50ab0631ff71f6571cd2b8bb31.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6b66e1aa6e937d2340d333e0e181a34df6e1d7d1dc15230a5921fad4a051d856.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/215210b211a7d4e90a1e86d2437249d1e2fac68acf5d8f25d2747f85e0e1e499.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/912238ed35d1fb3eca013494c759e92f61feb3f79d4358e1ad3e65545c80960c.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/804087d92c979e6a1a9b2c1d59c47497c250ef1271d07448c1fa0361502ef908.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6dc6532651986752c2de9065c4d43a448c7742d3b3d7452ce825d1896562d50c.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/086ec49ab81738b44d11a2d9691ea984e2e75dceefcb0fcfc19717af059de70b.png audio. Not sure what else to do.

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