Setting up the Xamarin project for Android Auto
Continuing from the previous section, you will be configuring the Xamarin project for Android Auto:
- Open Visual Studio 2017.
- Go to the project through
File
|Open
|Project
/Solution
, go to theMyPodCast
directory, and choose theMyPodCast.sln
file. - Go to
Tools
|Android
|Android SDK Manager
. - In the
Platforms
tab, go toAndroid 5.0 Lollipop
and selectAndroid SDK Platform 21
. - In
Tools
|Extras
|Android Auto API Simulators
andAndroid Auto Desktop Head Unit
(DHU) emulator are selected.
- Click
Apply Changes
.
The following screenshot shows the Android SDK manager for installing DHU:

Installing DHU
- Download and unzip (https://bit.ly/2JF8jMq) the file to the
MyPodCast
\Resources
directory. The downloaded file contains all the images and icons you will need to build the MyPodCast application. - Go back to the Visual Studio MyPodCast project.
- Click on the
MyPodCast
project. - Go to
Project
|Show All Files
.
- Ctrl + click on each of the folders that you unzipped from...