Introduction
This is pretty much my first try on Android. I’ve downloaded tools in the past… and even faced one or two of the problems below, but I’ve never really stuck with it and actually run anything. The reason it reads like I don’t know what I’m doing and just flailing around in the dark is because I don’t and I am.
Software
In the past, the Android system has seemed to me, as a Visual Studio Developer, a little scattered. This is definitely still the case, but now less so. Android Studio seems to be the first step into a “download and run” system… but that is still a way off.
Steps
The first thing to do is to download Android Studio. Create a new project and build. You may get none of the following issues, but if you do, then this is how I got around them.
This appears to be answered by this question. The problem was definitely the same one; when I compiled, I get this error:
C:\\Users\\Paul\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\sdk\\tools\\emulator.exe -avd MonoForAndroid\_API\_15 -netspeed full -netdelay none emulator: ERROR: This AVD's configuration is missing a kernel file!!
The suggested solution is to install the “ARM EABI v7a System Image”.
I enabled it, however, this did not fix the issue for me.
I then tried running Android Virtual Device Manager:
After creating a new AVD like the Nexus One above, ironically, Android Studio advises you to use x86. So I did… and got this error:
But it’s already installed:
Weirdly, “Installed” is a misnomer; it doesn’t mean “installed”, it means… err… “not installed”. The way to properly install it is to go to the “extras” directory in explorer and run the installer from there:
I then got this error:
Okay - so this error is caused because you apparently can’t run Hyper-V and the HAXM emulator at the same time. I didn’t want to disable Hyper-V and, having tried several work-arounds, came to the conclusion that whatever the speed implications of not using the HAXM emulator, it was not as bad as having to reboot my machine to switch dev environments. So, I moved to ARM EABI-v7A:
As promised - this is slow! But it works:
