How can I attach a virtual device/emulator to Visual Studio Xamarin Android project?

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Awesome that you got it working.

I found that list doesnt always update and a restart of Visual Studio was the quickest way to get the emulator in the list of devices to debug against.

If that doesnt work, try restarting the ADB service.

Start the emulator.
Open up a command prompt, browse to the location of the Android SDK (default is '%LocalAppData%\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools').
Run the command 'adb kill-server'.
Run 'adb devices' (this should show the running emulator as an attached device).
Restart VS and you should see the emulator in the list.

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Updated on June 11, 2022

Comments

B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven about 2 years

I created an Android app for Ice Cream Sandwich and added nothing to the default code (except changing the text of the "Hello World" message - I couldn't - or wouldn't - help myself).

I mashed F5.

Nada - no device attached. The dropdown list says "No Devices Attached."

So, I set one up via the "Open Android Emulator Manager" button that the Xamarin install added:

I mashed F5 again; same problem. It said to pick a device from the dropdown list (I had forgotten to explicitly choose the one I just set up). But...there's nothing in the list. Why not?

UPDATE

It's working now; I reckon it was not showing me my device for selection because some Android packages were downloading in the background (via the "Android SDK Manager", also added by Xamarin).

I feel transported back two years, when I was "messing around with" Eclipse/Android/Java.
Jer about 8 years

I was looking for exactly this problem. You saved my day!
MarzSocks over 7 years

You can restart ADB server directly within visual studio: Tools > Android > Restart Adb Server