Visual Studio uses the Android emulators provided by Google. If we want our emulator to be fast, then we need to ensure that it is hardware-accelerated. To hardware-accelerate the Android emulator, we need to install the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM), which can be downloaded from https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager-intel-haxm.
The next step is to create the Android emulator. First, we need to ensure that the Android emulator and the Android OS images are installed. To do this, take the following steps:
- Go to the Tools tab to install the Android emulator:
- We also need to install one or multiple images to use with the emulator. We can install multiple images if, for example, we want to run our app on different versions of Android. We can select emulators with Google Play (as in the following screenshot) so that we can use...
