I'm having trouble with the Android emulator.
I am running on Windows 10, and here is my environment:
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2017
Version 15.5.6
VisualStudio.15.Release/15.5.6+27130.2027
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.7.02556
Xamarin 4.8.0.760 (fc93f3f5b)
Visual Studio extension to enable development for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.
Xamarin Designer 4.8.188 (c5813fa34)
Visual Studio extension to enable Xamarin Designer tools in Visual Studio.
Xamarin.Android SDK 8.1.5.0 (HEAD/75f8c6838)
Xamarin.Android Reference Assemblies and MSBuild support.
Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Mac SDK 11.6.1.4 (db807ec)
Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Mac Reference Assemblies and MSBuild support.
My Android SDK Platform looks like:
and the SDK Tools is:
In my emulator screen, no matter what device I choose, I get the error:
"No system images installed for this target".
I clearly have installed the Google ARM System Images.
I don't understand why I'm getting the error message.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Charles
Update 2
I would like to thank York Shen, and Jon Douglas for their help. The Device Emulator now works... well almost.
I installed the Intel HAXM Emulator Accelerator. My console script was:
I also selected the Accelerator from the SDK Tools:
When I try to define a new device using the Emulator Manager, I now get:
Obviously, I still have a problem with HAXM. By the way, if you tell me I have to change my computer's BIOS to make HAXM work, I will give up on Android.
I tried to run a default emulator, and it warned me that I could continue, but without any acceleration. A simulator appeared but my application did not run. My application only runs on iOS and UWP.
I'm going on five days in trying to get the Android Emulators to work. No cigar. I contrast this to my experience with the iOS Emulator. That one took me about 1/2 an hour to get running. It was very clean and simple. I'm thinking seriously about abandoning all software development for Android.
Why am I getting: “No system images installed for this target”
As #Jon Douglas said, you are using a deprecated version of the AVD Manager, you could refer to the docuemnt:
As of Android SDK Tools version 26.0.1, Google has removed support for their UI-based AVD and SDK managers in favor of their new CLI (Command Line Interface) tools.
You could refer to my answer for a more detailed answer about how to solve this issue:
Xamarin with Visual Studio not detecting CPU/ABI system image for emulator, even though system images are installed
Update:
If you use the Xamarin SDK Manager and Xamarin Android Device Manager, you need update to Android SDK Tools 26.0.1 and later (which is required for Android 8.0 Oreo development).
You could read this: Requirements. In your situation, upgrade your Android SDK Tools version to 26.1.1:
Update 2:
You need Installing the Xamarin Android Device Manager, then you could start the Device Manager by clicking Tools > Android Emulator Manager:
To help anyone scratching their heads as to why when they install a new version of Visual Studio 2017 the emulator looks different to York Shen above, its because Visual Studio didn't bundle the latest version of the AVD Manager into Visual Studio 15.6.6 (as of 23rd April)
I followed #York Shen - MSFT's answer until I hit a snag on the update of the Android SDK tools. I simply downloaded them from https://developer.android.com/studio/#downloads (Command line tools only, sdk-tools-windows-4333796.zip).
Copy the contents of the tools folder into C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\tools
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I have Visual Studio 2019 installed with Xamarin. I'm trying to get Shell to show up in the project templates. I'm following this post as a guide. But when I install the vsix file, it fails with the error message: Installation of Microsoft.VisualStudio.Android.DeviceManager failed. The extension has a lower version than required by Visual Studio. Please install the extension from Visual Studio Installer instead.
Where in the Visual Studio Installer is the Android Device Manager? I've installed all the Mobile Development tools and all updates....
That post is obsolete - it describes something you needed to do in a Preview version of VS 2019.
In VS Installer, select Workload "Mobile development with .NET".
I was unable to find any Microsoft doc that tells you to simply do that!
I don't recall whether you still need to also do this step:
Setting up the Android SDK for Xamarin.Android.
After installing the Workload mentioned above, restart VS. See if the menu item mentioned below is there. If so, try to make a sample app - maybe this "Android SDK" step is no longer needed - the Workload might set everything up.
Then Android Device Manager will be at menu Tools / Android / Android Device Manager.
Menu location documented here.
In a computer, I have installed Android 11.0 SDK for a Visual Studio 2019 Community installation and my Xamarin Android app is compiled correctly using this SDK. The SDK was installed automatically:
Then I installed Visual Studio 2019 Community in another computer to compile my app there. But it seems the Android 11.0 SDK is no longer available:
It is not installed automatically and I cannot find anywhere to install it manually. What's wrong and how can I install Android 11.0 SDK on Visual Studio?
After long searching and none of the solutions were working for me, i've found that the SDK can also be installed with the VS Installer.
The API level 30 (Android 11) was nowhere to be found to install, nor VS SDK Manager nor Android Studio SDK Manager (the AS SDK Manager didn't even work, could not load any SDK's)
(See screenshots)
Go to VS Installer -> Modify VS version
-> Go to tab 'Individual Components' -> Search for SDK API level 30 -> Select and install
After the first login you'll probably need to accept SDK licenses again as I had to.
Hope this helps anyone who, like me, did not find any other solution working
PS: I did update VS to its latest version before doing this, not sure if this is mandatory or not since I was on 16.10 before but if this doesn't work, try updating VS itself first.
As of now Android 11 is not officially supported in Visual Studio.
So you have two options:
Select to use unofficial repositories in that dialog
Wait for the version 16.9 where it is supposed to be supported.
So i have installed Visual Studio 2017 Community version for my windows 7 laptop. The installation completed with an error log that said that it had failed to download the Android Emulator for it.
Now, when i try to click on The AVD Manager or the SDK - both do nothing at all (no feedback too).
When i try to do a repair or modify - VS will tell "Setup Operation Failed".
I have search online for the Android Emulator only package - but all found were compatible with windows 8 or more.
I have looked online, and some people still have this problem - but no solution.
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks!
Error log bit:
The product failed to install the listed workloads and components due to one or more package failures.
Incomplete workloads
Mobile development with .NET (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetCrossPlat,version=15.0.26403.0)
Incomplete components
Android NDK (R13B) (Component.Android.NDK.R13B,version=13.1.6)
Android SDK setup (API level 23) (Component.Android.SDK23,version=15.0.26208.0)
Google Android Emulator (API Level 23) (Component.Google.Android.Emulator.API23.V2,version=15.0.26208.0)
Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM) (Component.HAXM,version=15.0.26208.0)
Google recently released Android SDK Tools 26.0.1(March 2017) that comes with the Android Studio 2.3.1(April 2017) update. This version of Android SDK Tools deprecates the android program in the tools folder.
Because of this deprecation, the SDK Manager and AVD Manager stand-alone programs will no longer work when invoking them from the respective IDE menus. Rather Google has recommended that users now use the CLI tooling.
LINK
I would like to install the SDK for several android platforms on my chromebook using Ubuntu with crouton when I get it. The problem is that the chromebook I might get only has 16gb minus the OS. Installing the android SDK to eclipse also seems to install the whole emulator as well and it takes up A LOT of storage. Last time I did it I install 3 SDKs and the total space was almost 10gb.
Is there a way to install just the bare essentials for android development?
I don't want to run an emulator since I have several devices at my disposal and the chromebook won't be able to handle it anyway. Thanks! :)
Assuming you already have a JDK installed, the bare minimum you need for Android development is the standalone SDK, the platform tools, and at least one version of the Android platform. All of that takes up less than 1/2gb.
You can get the standalone SDK from here. Scroll down to the bottom and it's under Other Download Options / SDK Tools only. Once you have that downloaded and unzipped somewhere, go into the android-sdk-linux/tools directory and run the android command there. It will popup the Android SDK manager. Uncheck everything except for the following and click install:
Tools
Android SDK Platform-tools
Android SDK Build-tools
Android 5.1.1. (API 22) // or different version
SDK Platform
Google APIs
Extras
Android Support Library
other packages if your app needs them
You can find more information about how to use the standalone SDK for setting up your project and whatnot here.
I tried to install Android SDK plugin on my existing Eclipse Classic 3.6.0 (Helios). I managed to do everything else, but when I try to add components using Android SDK and AVD Manager in Eclipse, whole Eclipse just crashes.
Anyone have any idea what's going on?
Eclipse Crash Log on pastebin.com
NOTE: there is NO date shown on this page( Currently 2010 Nov )
This page states,
http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html
System Requirements
Supported Development Environments
Eclipse IDE
Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) or 3.5 (Galileo)
Caution: There are known issues with the ADT plugin running with Eclipse 3.6. Please stay on 3.5 until further notice.
ALSO NOTE
looking at your pastebin.com post
you PATH variable is corrupt
As of Feb 2013, using Android Dev Tools (Android SDK and Eclipse), build v21.0.1 - the AVD Manager crashed repeatedly using JDK v7x. Using JDK v6x resolved the issue, able to setup virtual devices now.