Run Visual Studio Installer and then click on the Modify button:Ģ. My Solution to Fixing Missing Android SDKġ. The only way I was able to resolve this was to run the Visual Studio Installer and uninstalled the the Xamarin SDK Manager and re-install it. Perhaps installing the Xamarin Device Manager broke it, I’m not sure but it’s broken. Perhaps a one of the latest Visual Studio updates caused this issue because now none of the Android tooling like device or emulator are working.
![android emulator for mac xamarin android emulator for mac xamarin](https://docs.microsoft.com/es-es/xamarin/android/deploy-test/debugging/debug-on-emulator-images/loading-state.png)
I ran through the troubleshooting section section and the issue is that I was missing the Android SDK (requires 26 or higher). Why you might ask? Well 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.Īfter having installed the latest version of the Xamarin Device Manager installer for Windows, I ran it from the Start menu with Administrator privileges like so: However now I have a need to and so I decided to try out the new Xamarin Android Device manager. Up until now I wasn’t really using the Android emulators for any Xamarin development as I was more focused on iOS and Windows. Please keep in mind that at the time of this post the Xamarin Android Device Manager is still in preview.įor me I’m running the latest version of Visual Studio 2017 (15.5.7) and I already had the Xamarin components installed and working.
ANDROID EMULATOR FOR MAC XAMARIN HOW TO
Please read the Xamarin Developer guide first which explains how to install and use the Xamarin Android Device Manager for Visual Studio on Windows (or for Mac).
![android emulator for mac xamarin android emulator for mac xamarin](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v4FIvyY_BZ8/maxresdefault.jpg)
This post is a follow up to how I got Xamarin Android Device Manager up and running on Windows.