Visual Studio Emulator for Android first experience

Visual Studio Emulator for Android has been available for some time, but has never been used. The first two days of download and installation, the overall feeling than Google's own simulator is much stronger. Visual Studio Emulator for Android inherits the legacy of the Windows Phone emulator, which is as smooth as the real machine.

Here are some of the records that are installed and used

1. You need to enable Hyper-V before installation, as is required for the Windows Phone 8 emulator. First you need to check if the computer supports Hyper-V, and if Intel's CPU needs to be at least i3. It is also important to note that some computers, while supporting Hyper-V, are not turned on by default in the BIOS, and need to be turned on before entering the BIOS. Then check hyper-V in "Turn Windows features on or off" in Control Panel, and then restart your computer.

2. Official Address https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/msft-android-emulator-vs.aspx

Download Vs_emulatorsetup.exe download speed is still very fast.

3. After the installation, open the emulator management interface, the following is

By default, two 4.4 versions of the simulator are installed, others need to be downloaded before they can be used, I have a 4.2 nexus S, and the download is pretty fast. As you can see from the drop-down box at the top left, the maximum API level currently available for the simulator is 23, and the lowest API level is 17, which is sufficient for general development.

4. There is a small green triangle is already downloaded, click on the simulator will start, the startup process will take about 1 minutes. The following are the startup:

Click ">>" in the control bar in the right-hand side to open the add-on tool as follows:

You can see that there are 7 features in the Add-on tool, which is very useful to test the function.

5. Below I wrote a demo in Adt-bundle to run in this simulator, and found that the ADB could not find the simulator. What is this for? Found the answer Https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt228282.aspx#ADB on MSDN. Originally Microsoft's Android simulator needs to know the folder path of the Android SDK on this computer, knowing this path, it can find the ADB, and tell ADB that it has started, can be used. How to set the path here? To set up in the registry, open the registry, locate the Hkey_local_machine\software\wow6432node\android SDK Tools folder in the left directory tree, and find the key named path under this folder. Modify the folder path whose value is the Android SDK on your local computer. If the registry does not have an Android SDK Tools folder or a path key, you can create a new file.

6. The use of the process found there are still some bugs, such as Chinese input method problems, open the system comes with Google Pinyin input method, as long as the screen will automatically start the input method, the output "C", as follows:

Write these for the time being, and follow up with any questions you can add. :)

Visual Studio Emulator for Android first experience