#Xamarin visual studio android emulator upgrade
And there is an issue with Windows upgrade that it doesn't create Hyper-V administrator group and it is not possible to create it manually. I had Hyper-V enabled, but it didn't work because I have a Windows 10 Pro upgraded from Windows 10 Home. Visual Studio Android Emulator seemed really good, but unfortunately, it doesn't run on my computer. Issues with Visual Studio Android Emulator I didn't bother to find out why because there are other options available. When I tried to run it from Android Emulator Manager, it displayed Android logo and hung. When deploying an application from Visual Studio, Android Emulator starts with a black screen and nothing happens. I tried it again, but still - no success. Previously I successfully deployed an application to a phone, but never got default Android Emulator to run and didn't try other emulators. Deploying an application to an Android Emulator Issues with Android Emulator When I installed SDK 3.0 from here, the project started to load. Also found that it might be caused by Android template to expect F# SDK 3.0 to be installed, but Visual Studio is installed with F# SDK 3.1. After some googling found out the I am not the only guy with such issue. Next, I wanted to create Android application - chose Blank App (Android) template.īut after selecting the template and creating the project, the project fails to load. I chose PCL library template which has support for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. And if I would like to build iOS or Windows Phone versions of my application, I could reuse the library. By using PCL library in my Android application, I can keep all application logic separately from UI.
#Xamarin visual studio android emulator update
With a new update of Visual Studio, F# finally gets PCL library templates which allow building cross-platform libraries. Now I have installed Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 which includes new project templates for F#, including Android, iOS, and PCL.
I was able to create a simple application, but I had issues creating PCL libraries to be able to reuse common code with other applications.
Previously I tried to build Xamarin Android applications in F# too. NET developer, Xamarin Android was a natural choice. I am not a mobile application developer but I needed to build an Android application.