Avd Manager Mac

The AVD manager helps the user to set up and do the configurations for virtual Android devices. It has information on device type, system image or Application Binary Interface (ABI) and verifies the configurations. Android Emulator is known to mimic the device hardware. Now, post that, it helps in translating the ABI to match the host device.

In Visual Studio, in a Xamarin project, open your Android SDK Tools. If you know where the SDK Tools are in the filesystem, you can also do it that way :) You can also type 'Android SDK Manager' in the QuickLaunch bar on the top right.

First, start AVD manager. If you haven’t created any AVD or android virtual device before, you will find it in Tools-AVD Manager. Click on Create new virtual device button. It will show you a list of different devices. You can select any of these phones. It will show you a list of system images.
Start AVD Manager Without Android Studio. First, open the file explorer and go to the Android SDK folder. Inside the SDK folder, find and open the Emulator folder. As you can see, I’ve placed my SDK folder in some other drive. In the file explorer, hold the Shift key on your keyboard and right-click on the empty space.

Then, make sure you have the Intel Hardware Acceleration Manager (HAXM) installed, which will speed everything up TREMENDOUSLY. The reason it's so much faster is the x86 instruction set is the same as your Intel processor, and also uses Intel's virtualization hardware acceleration, provided by HAXM. The 'ARM' device simulators simulate ARM processors, which can't easily be simulated by your PC's or Mac's x86-based processor, so they're horrifically slow.

Then, when debugging, make sure you only use the x86 device simulators, which you access via the Android Virtual Device Manager, next to the SDK Manager:

Visual Studio does have an Android simulator, but I've found the latest Android simulator much better, and it's officially from Google :)

Remember: ALWAYS test your app on REAL DEVICES. Simulators aren't enough of a test. They're great for development, of course!

Hope that helps!

A few more references:

Xamarin Android Simulator Article: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/deployment,_testing,_and_metrics/debug-on-emulator/android-sdk-emulator/

Xamarin University on Android Player: https://university.xamarin.com/resources/working-with-android-emulators

Intel HAXM: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager-intel-haxm

Install Avd Manager Mac

When you develop your app with Fire App Builder, you should use an actual Fire TV device to test your app. See Connecting to Fire TV Through ADB for details. However, if you're in a situation where you can only use an emulator, you can get by if you accept some limitations with the emulator. The emulator will work, but you can't click the media player buttons with your mouse.

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Mouse clicks generate motion events, which aren't supported by media played in Fire App Builder (you'll see an error in logcat that says 'java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.MotionEvent cannot be cast to android.view.KeyEvent'). As a result, the app will crash on the emulator if you use your mouse to click the media player's buttons.

Instead of using your mouse on the media playback screen, to return to the previous screen after playing media, click the Back button on the right of the emulator (as indicated by the arrow in the following screenshot).

Don't click the media player's buttons with your mouse. Outside of media playback, you can use your mouse to click wherever you want.

To configure an emulator:

When you configure the Android TV emulator, you must select at least API Level 23 or 24. You have flexibility with the other settings (resolution, size, and so on). (If you choose API Level 24, you'll be prompted to install Instant Run, which is a requirement for this API level.)

To set up an Android TV emulator for your app:

Go to Tools > Android > AVD Manager, or click the AVD Manager button on the top navigation bar.
Click the + Create Virtual Device button.
Note: You can select one of the default TV profiles, or you can customize the settings by following the steps below. If you select a default TV profile, skip ahead to step 12 where you select a system image.
In the Category column, select TV.
Click the New Hardware Profile button.
In the Device Name, type something like fire_tv_emulator. (Avoid using parentheses in the name, as this may cause errors.)
For the Device Type, select Android TV.
For the Screen size, type the screen size you want (for example, 40).
For the Resolution, type the resolution you want (for example, 1280 x 720).
For the Supported device states, select only Landscape (clear the Portrait check box).
Click Finish.
In the 'Choose a device definition' dialog box, select the emulator you just created and click Next.
In the Release Name column, select at least Marshmallow API Level 23 or higher. If you haven't downloaded this system image yet, click Download to download it. (If you select API Level 22 or lower, media playback will fail in the emulator.)
Click Next and then click Finish.

The emulator is now listed as an option in your virtual devices.

Note: If you chose a default TV profile, you must rename the device to remove any parentheses in the name. These parentheses cause an error when you run your app. (You'll see an error that says the 'virtual device name contains invalid characters.') To rename your virtual device, while viewing your virtual devices, click the Edit button under the Actions column on the right. Then rename the device.

Run your app by clicking the Run 'app' button . Select the virtual device you created:

Now you can use the emulator as usual. Just be careful when you play media. When you play media, don't click the buttons on the media player with your mouse. Instead, either use your keys or use the buttons to the right of the emulator as shown in the earlier screenshot.

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Last updated: Aug 22, 2017