Visual Studio not showing installed Android api levels

Question

I am developing an Android app in Visual Studio. In the Android SDK manager, all API\'s from API level 23 (Android 6.0) to API level 25 (Android 7.1) are installed.

Answer 1

In Visual Studio 2017 preview there is an improved Google Android emulation support with a new Android emulator that's built into Visual Studio (this supercedes the Visual Studio Emulator for Android):

I checked it this morning and it had Android emulators up to API 27 including Oreo.

However, I did try to trigger API 28 P-Type even switching the SDK Manager from the Microsoft repository to the Google repository but it still didn't show up, but, at least you got everything you need up to API 27.

References:

• https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/preview/
• https://blog.xamarin.com/3-reasons-to-try-visual-studio-2017-version-15-4-previews/