#Mac launch android emulator install#
#Mac launch android emulator pro#
#Mac launch android emulator windows#

I can build a CMS MVC app from scratch in 10 days, but I'm struggling to just get setup for mobile development. It's just hard to when the only information out there covers only things that go perfectly and nothing when they don't.

I know, you're probably thinking I'm a moron, and you'd be correct, when it comes to mobile development, but I'm trying to learn. When I see instructions like this, I just close the page and go away because everything after it will be useless to me since I don't know what this first thing is. What?!? How do I know what version I want or need? What is an x86 Atom System Image? I can't be the only person who's completely brand new to app development and has no idea what all these things are. In the SDK Manager, make sure you have installed the x86 Atom System Image for the desired Android SDK version I look at the Android SDK dialog and it shows me many things, all of which I have no idea what they are. There should at least be articles that explain what it all means. There really should be a Troubleshooting guide for situations when emulators don't work.

#Mac launch android emulator windows#

I use winphone devices and give myself the android - unfortunately my app doesn't load on my Windows Phone either. I've looked at VS 2015 CTP but I figured Xamarin would work best with a more stable platform. I looked into GenyMotion but that's a commercial product and we don't have the funds for that right now. I'm reading everything I can to be as prepared as I can and I find contradictions in many places. I'm really new to Xamarin, let alone Xamarin.Forms, so I'm still getting my feet wet in this new framework. And at the moment, all my app is doing, since I just started, is displaying pages. I'm not saying that there could be some problem in my code, but it works on the only platform that I can run, which is on iOS.

#Mac launch android emulator install#

And by the way, then I connect my WP to my computer and try to send the app to my phone, I can tell it's trying to install and load, but it never does. Unfortunately, I don't have any Android devices. How can they do that and I can't? I've looked through the installation and setup documentation again and there's not indication that Hyper-V cannot be installed and running when using the Android emulators.

You'll need Hyper-V enabled for the Phone Emulator and Hyper-V disabled for the Xamarin Android Player or - the various videos that I've watched show them demoing all three platforms in succession. I would have thought this would be easier to get going, but I guess I missed something in my setup. Then when I close the emulator it simply gives me a numeric error. Windows Phone - it's weird, I launch the emulator and it says, 'Windows Phone OS is starting.', but it never starts. I've run out of things I can think of to fix this. I've made sure that the Windows Firewall has the port opened. And then it says the OpenGL is not reachable. There is no other virtualization option that I can find. I tried that and it says Virtualization is enabled. Android error - I installed the Xamarin Android Player and when I launch it, it tells me that Hyper-V should be enabled in the bios. I'm able to build my app and have it compile on the networked Mac-mini and the iOS emulator works, but neither the Android nor Windows Phone emulators work.

#Mac launch android emulator pro#

I have a brand new machine, Windows 8.1 Pro (received ) and I've installed Xamarin, Visual Studio 2013, SQL Server 2012 and some other components.