Dragging one dot causes the other dot to move in the opposite direction, simulating two-finger movement. Overlays several dots on the device display that act as touch points for pinching and zooming. Returns the device to single point input (after using Multi-touch input). Minimizes the Emulator Screen and Keep it running. The following Table Summarizes the function of each button on the vertical toolbar.
Visual Studio Emulator for Android not found? Click here. The Vertical Toolbar to the right of the emulator provides access to emulator features. When the emulator Screen Appears, Drag the Lock icon on the screen upward to unlock the Device. It will take some time to Launch the Emulator. A Message will appear in the Bottom left corner of Visual Studio indicating that the Emulator is Starting. When Visual Studio Starts a Xamarin.Android Application, the Emulator is Launched with the Chosen Device Target and the app is Deployed to the Emulator. Visual Studio Makes Several pre-Configured target-device profiles available in the Debug Target drop-down Manu as show in the following picture. » A Processor That Supports SSSE3 or Later.
» 64-bit Version of the Pro Edition of Window 8, Window 8.1 or Window 10.
Hopefully this will change in the future and that this modification will no longer be needed, we will just have to wait & see.Hyper-V Formerly known as windows server virtualization. Well I have done that & managed to get the emulator to spin up and work. In Windows, you’ll need to edit the c:\program files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\0.0\skus\android\xdesku.xml file and remove the following line from the file: GuestDisplayProvider=”VsEmulator.OpenGLGuestDisplay” I would also suggest at least 2 processors and 4gb of ram (6gb is better depending on the Android VMs you want to run)
In VMWare Fusion, under General settings, for the OS Type, you’ll need to change it from Windows 8.1 to “Hyper-V (unsupported)”. You can try to enable it if you do not need OpenGL support, but running in this mode is unsupported as some features are not functional in this mode.
Our emulator is not officially supported in a nested virtualization environment (like when running under VMWare Fusion). He is the response from Visual Studio team: The following solution is not a supported & official response from the Visual Studio Team but does allow you to use it inside of VMWare Fusion.
So the first thing I done was hit the lovely smiley face in the main window, to give the Visual Studio team feedback on this and within 3 to 4 hours I received a reply on how to resolve this. So after downloading the new Visual Studio 2015 release, I am quite keen to do some mobile development so I was keen to look at the Visual Studio Android Emulator, but upon opening the application & starting one of the emulators that are already come pre installed, I was greeted with an error. I thought I would share a quick blog post for others who may have recently downloaded Visual Studio 2015 this week who use a Mac as their main machine & VMWare Fusion to run a copy of Windows on it.