It can be installed and used without Visual Studio.
Mac os xamarin android emulator for android#
No errors, no crash, no frustration! That was the discovery of the day! The Visual Studio Emulator for Android The details about the emulator can be found here: Most important points: About 35 minutes after reading the blog post by Miguel de Icaza, my app was running in the emulator! AND IT JUST WORKED!!!!! I have spent so much time fiddling around with android emulators and I could not believe it. I thought something along the lines of “hm, interesting” and then tried it out. And, the last sentence mentions that the Xamarin Android Player (XAP) is therefore officially deprecated!!!
Mac os xamarin android emulator mac os x#
But then, I stumbled upon the “Live from dotNetConf: Cycle 7, Xamarin Studio 6, and more” blog post by Miguel de Icaza, written on June 8, 2016: In the section “New Mac OS X Universal Installer”, a sidenote mentions that there is a new (and improved) Android Emulator from Google and that there is an improved Hyper-V based Android Emulator for VS2015.