

You don’t have to install the Android SDK which can save you a bunch of time and disk space! Here’s what the emulator looks like running a default Xamarin.

A Xamarin account – if you are a student you can get it free via Microsoft Imagine!.In Visual Studio for Mac, click Tools > SDK Manager. In Visual Studio, click Tools > Android > Android SDK Manager. Make sure Xamarin tools and the Visual Studio Android Emulator are enabled in your Visual Studio install. To create a project with Xamarin.Android 10.0, you must first use the Android SDK Manager to install the SDK platform for Android 10 (API level 29). A PC running Visual Studio 2015 (Community Edition works great).The good news is, it doesn’t have to be! If you are building cross-platform apps using technologies like Xamarin, the Visual Studio Android Emulator is your friend! In this video, I demonstrate how you can create a default cross-platform Xamarin.Forms app and start debugging it in about 3 minutes from start to finish! Yes, it can be difficult to debug Android apps on Windows.
