![]() ![]() Next, select a device that you wish to run – I choose the 10.1″ Lollipop “Nexus 10” device and clicked Install profile.Īs far as I can tell, the emulator will use as much CPU as the host computer will give it – there is no throttling involved. I uninstalled the default profiles by using the ‘uninstall profile’ icon: These are the specifications of the virtual devices that you want to launch. You’ll be prompted to sign in with your Microsoft account – you can just use a free Hotmail account if you wish.Īt this point you’ll be prompted to setup “profiles”. Once installed, launch it from the Start Menu: This is totally free and doesn’t require a Visual Studio/MSDN subscription. I’ve tried this on my machine development machine (i7 5960x, 32GB RAM) and a lower-end test machine (i5 2400, 12GB RAM) and both work perfectly with no lag.įirst, you’ll want to download the Visual Studio Emulator for Android from here: ![]() This guide assumes you already have Hyper-V installed, and that you have a fairly powerful machine. Personally, I don’t like it as it’s very invasive and the service that it installs kept crashing but YMMV. Note: if you’re in this just to run Android apps on your pc and you’re not a developer, you might want to consider BlueStacks ( Google Bing it). I did however, have a Windows tablet with an internet connection to my development machine which does have an Android device, albeit a virtual one! Recently I was in a situation where I needed to demonstrate an Android App to a client, but didn’t have an Android device with me. ![]()
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