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Steve

Hi i'm really struggling to get the Android emulator running on my Mac. What are the steps I need to take to get this working?

I've got Visual Studio 2019 on MacOS Catalina

This is on a new blank Xamarin Forms project

I've tried to go Tools > Device Manager > New Device. Pixel 3 XL , x86_64, Q 10.

I keep getting this message:

Android emulator component is incomplete therefore the device Pixel 3 XL Q 10.0 - API 29 could not be created. Do you want us to reinstall the Android Emulator?

I've clicked the button to reinstall the android emulator but it doesnt work.

Studio

Also tried with OS 8.1 and setting processor as x86 - all the combinations give a similar error messages

When i go to Tools > SDK Manager, the following are ticked:

Android 10.0 - Q

  • Android SDK Platform 29
  • Intel x86 Atom_64 System Image
  • Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64 System Image
  • Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image

Similar for 9.0, 8.1, 7.1, 7.0, 6.0

Version details - Version is 8.6.2 (build 6)

  • Android SDK Manager

    • Version: 16.6.0.50
    • Hash: 5901879
    • Branch: remotes/origin/d16-6
    • Build date: 2020-04-30 04:01:22 UTC
  • Android Device Manager

    • Version: 16.6.0.95
    • Hash: 45d17b5
    • Branch: remotes/origin/d16-6
    • Build date: 2020-04-30 04:01:42 UTC
  • Xamarin.Android

    • Version: 10.3.1.4 (Visual Studio Community)
    • Commit: xamarin-android/d16-6/3a10de9
  • Android SDK: /Users/user/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx

  • Supported Android versions:
    • 6.0 (API level 23)
    • 7.1 (API level 25)
    • 8.0 (API level 26)
    • 8.1 (API level 27)
Steve

I ended up downloading Android Studio, then running the installers from there and then finally went back to VS Mac and installed an emulator device - that seemed to work.

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