Visual Studio - Xamarin - Emulator black screen/

Question

I decided to install xamarin the other day so I could start coding in c#. So far it's been an absolute nightmare getting anything to work. I downloaded the xamarin bundle that visual studio offers and now I'm trying to simply run a test app and the emulator won't work.

I've looked at every video online, & tried to read through as many forums as possible but at this point I need direct help before I throw my computer into the pool(jk)

I've downloaded android emulator & installed almost all the devices & made sure to install all the packages in the android sdk. I created a new device from the vds manager but I STILL get errors. this is the message I get waiting for the emulator to start, I don't see the android splash either

still waiting

Answer 1

I got stuck on this for a while until the basic issue was I simply was not waiting long enough. Keep an eye on your Visual Studio build window, and watch all the slow messages as the come up.. it takes around 3-5 minutes on a blank project for the first time on a intel i5 with 8GB ram.... so the trick really in my case was to be patient. I think it gets faster second time round as it remembers some of the hard work it did the fist time to get it to work.

Answer 2

I just reseted the emulator to factory defaults and it worked.