How to develop android apps with xamarin without hyper v and emulator

Question

I am using windows 10 home and visual studio 2017. I want to develop android apps with xamarin. Hyper-V feature is not available on windows 10 home and I can not afford pro

Answer 1

You can try to use any avaliable on windows android emulator. I like to use Bluestack (https://www.bluestacks.com), the steps for use it below:

1. Install Bluestacks emulator
2. Launch emulator and wait for load finished It's your wellcome screen, your application and apps from store will be here
3. Go to settings > Preferences and check "Enable android debug bridge (ADB)" + "Enable Android input debugging"

One time Setup finished

4. "Open android adb command promt" and type

adb connect 127.0.0.1:5555

If you have done everything good you will be connected to emulator and ready to debug your application

Good luck!

Answer 2

It's possible to develop Xamarin app without using the emulators. But in that case you'll need to have an Android device to deploy your app on.

• Setup Android SDK Manager on your system. Although Xamarin includes a SDK Manager, you can download it from the following link. Android SDK Manager download

• Setup the ADB (Android Debug Bridge) on your system (install Google USB Drivers)

• Connect your Android device to the system after you enable USB Debugging(Developer options) on it. Once the device is connected it will give you a prompt to enable debugging. Tap yes and you'll see the option to build to your device as shown in image.

Answer 3

UPDATE:

As of visual studio 2019, non-hyper v emulation has been stopped.

Old Answer

I am very positive that at the time of VS installation the Visual studio emulators for Android are readily available for download and use, there you can find a good amount of android emulators also it provides you with Android SDK which again can be used to create Android emulators without using Hyper-V

The below link contains all you need to know about Visual studio emulators including on how to install :

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt228279.aspx

Hope this Answers your question. Goodluck!