I have installed Visual Studio 2015 Preview and started new Project - Naive Activity Application (Android). I would like to run the application against physical device, but there is only emulator in the target. I can see from some screenshot that it is possible, but I cannot find the right way.
How to set the physical Android Device as the target?
For me this worked :
After making sure the required drivers are all installed, just connect your phone via usb
Wait until you see your phone's name instead of the emulator.
Connect!
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I am using Visual Studio 2022 to create a Xamarin.Forms application based on Android. Now I have the problem that my connected Android device is not recognized in Visual Studio. Running "adb devices" shows the connected device. When running Android Studio I can also see the device listed - only in Visual Studio it is not shown in the list. In addition, also the Windows Device manager shows the the device in the portable devices category.
I have enabled USB Debugging on the device
I tried different cables
Reset the USB authorization for the connected PC
Any idea what's wrong here?
Search for Visual Studio Installer from your Start menu.
Select more->repair. Use this operation to try to repair.
You can also try other Android devices to check, if it still doesn't work, please check your Android SDK.
I am new in android and trying to run a simple Hello world! program using android studio. I defined an AVD which is a Pixel device with API version 28 (Pie). When I run the program, the emulator gets up, but it doesn't load the application. I have tried following, but none of them worked:
Restarting avd server from command-line.
Changing skin to QVGA.
Creating a new emulator.
Setting graphics to software.
Any idea on the issue?
I think you do not enabled USB Debugging in your AVD.
Try this steps:
1- go to your AVD setting
2- System
3- About Device
4- Multiple Clicks on Build Number
5- Go back to setting
now you see Developer Options
6- goto developer options
7- check USB Debugging
Hope to be useful
Have you enabled USB debugging inside the emulator?
Before you create an Android emulator, you need to install an Android system image that your emulators can use.
Note: If you installed the Android SDK and NDK during RAD Studio installation, a valid Android system image (such as Android 4.2.2 API 17) should already be shown as Installed in the Android SDK Manager. In this case, you do not need to install another Android system image.
Still, if you are not able to run the emulator then try this Memu Emulator
This is a very small and simple emulator to use and install. It works perfectly on every pc.
I am using windows 10 home and visual studio 2017. I want to develop android apps with xamarin. Hyper-V feature is not available on windows 10 home and I can not afford pro version, So emulator is not installing without hyper-v.
What should I do to develop android app?
Have anybody idea to deploy android app without using emulator and hyper-v?
Thank you in advance!
It's possible to develop Xamarin app without using the emulators. But in that case you'll need to have an Android device to deploy your app on.
Setup Android SDK Manager on your system. Although Xamarin includes a
SDK Manager, you can download it from the following link. Android SDK Manager download
Setup the ADB (Android Debug Bridge) on your system (install Google USB Drivers)
Connect your Android device to the system after you enable USB Debugging(Developer options) on it. Once the device is connected it will give you a prompt to enable debugging. Tap yes and you'll see the option to build to your device as shown in image.
You can try to use any avaliable on windows android emulator. I like to use Bluestack (https://www.bluestacks.com), the steps for use it below:
Install Bluestacks emulator
Launch emulator and wait for load finished
It's your wellcome screen, your application and apps from store will be here
Go to settings > Preferences and check "Enable android debug bridge (ADB)" + "Enable Android input debugging"
One time Setup finished
"Open android adb command promt" and type
adb connect 127.0.0.1:5555
If you have done everything good you will be connected to emulator and ready to debug your application
Good luck!
UPDATE:
As of visual studio 2019, non-hyper v emulation has been stopped.
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I am very positive that at the time of VS installation the Visual studio emulators for Android are readily available for download and use, there you can find a good amount of android emulators also it provides you with Android SDK which again can be used to create Android emulators without using Hyper-V
The below link contains all you need to know about Visual studio emulators including on how to install :
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt228279.aspx
Hope this Answers your question.
Goodluck!
I have Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition with Xamarin inside Windows 7 Virtual Machine. I have my android device connected to the physical machine and Yes the android phone is recognized in the Virtual Machine, since it's shown in the My Computer of Virtual Machine, and also displayed in Other devices under Device Manager.
When I created Cross-Platform Blank App (Native Portable) project in VS2015 and Set App.Droid as startup Project, I can't see my phone. What am I missing?
Check unsupported devices under list of devices to run (or it is just Start button if you don't have any devices). If your phone is there that means your project has higher API level as Minimum target than the phone's API.
If phone is not even in that list then
Check on the phone if Developer mode is enabled and inside you have
USB debugging enabled
Stay awake
(Optionally) Allow mock locations
I have issues with the build in qemu emulator in Android Studio. There are some other Android emulators out there. How to configure Android Studio to use a different emulator? I use leapdroid emulator http://www.leapdroid.com to run apps and games.
Leapdroid is compatible with Android adb, i.e., using the same port numbers starting with 5555, so there is really nothing special to do, pretty much same as what you do with the built-in Android emulator. If you run "adb devices", you will see a device named as "emulator-5554".
Here are the steps:
Launch Leapdroid vm, which contains android 4.4.4 image
Launch Android Studio, and click Android emulator tab, a device named as "Emulator unknown 4.4.4" will show up inside the device list, and you can select it.
You should be able to see the logcat, and debug your Android app, etc.
Make sure that you close all other emulators first, in case there are conflicts.
I've also attached two screenshots for clarifications:
There are options like:
Genymotion: https://www.genymotion.com/
config with Androi Studio here
Visual Studio Emulator for Android
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/msft-android-emulator-vs.aspx
config with Android Studio here
I hope this help you
Did you try using Genymotion? It is the fastest emulator I've come across.
-Download it from their website for your required system specifications.
-You will also need an account to download the device images.
-Once all that is done, when you simply run the emulator, the device should show up in your ADB choose device window.
-You may also want to use Genymotion plugin for android studio for easy launch of virtual devices.