Some vendors like Samsung provide skins for Android so you could use them in your emulator when building Xamarin Apps with Visual Studio for Mac. Here is a short description how to add them:
If you already have Visual Studio 2019, you can check for updates: Open Visual Studio for Mac. In the menu bar, select Visual Studio Check for Updates. Available updates will be displayed and select Update. Optional: Install Xcode. If you want to build Xamarin apps for iOS or macOS, you'll also need.
- Jan 12, 2014 Confirm that your Mac emulator device has been picked up by entering the following command: adb.exe devices. You should see a device listed something like: emulator-5554. Open a Xamarin Android project. Now for the big test! Launch your Xamarin IDE of choice and open a Xamarin Android project.
- Xamarin comes with an in-built app for testing games. Key features: Xamarin comes with an app that helps in-game testing. For a larger development environment, you can plug Xamarin into the Microsoft studio. Xamarin is compatible with Windows, Mac, and android as well. Xamarin is inspired by the.NET framework.
- Mar 31, 2021 For Xamarin you need Xcode, iOS Simulators, Xcode CLI, Android SDK, Android Emulators, Visual Studio for Mac, Mono, Xamarin.iOS & Xamarin.Android SDK, and all the things that come with it. Lots of things that need to be updated.
- Download a skin, e.g. Samsung Emulator.
- Extract the downloaded zip and copy the files to any directory you like. You might want to keep it in the Android SDK directory somewhere. You could find the SDK directory in Visual Studio at Tools -> Android SDK Manager -> Locations. Typically it’s something like /Users/yourname/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx
- Create a new device in Tools -> Android Device Manager. Set settings for the device, especially OS, Density, Height and Width.
- If not listed yet, click ‘Add Property’ and select ‘skin.path’. Enter the full path of the emulator, e.g. /Users/yourname/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx/platforms/android-28/skins/GalaxyS10.
Xamarin Android Emulator Mac Free
Xamarin Android Player
That’s it. Now your skin is used for the new virtual device you just created.
Get Android Emulator skins
Here are some websites offering different skins for Android virtual devices emulators:
- OnePlus 6 – Emulator with Notch
List of different hardware profiles
As discussed on Reddit, there is actually no list of different hardware profiles which could be used to import into Visual Studio for creation of new emulator devices.
