- These are Best Android Emulators for PC. Install any of these Android Emulators and try Android apps on your PC. Bluestacks 2 is the best Android Emulator.
- Supported Platforms: Android, Microsoft Windows, and Apple Mac OS. Advantages of Android Studio Emulator: Android Studio is an official emulator by Google, so it comes with solid reliability and good features. It provides several options for accessing mobile applications on the desktop like testing apps, high definition gaming experience, etc.
Here's what finally worked for me: In Android Studio (Mac OS X) open up AVD Manager. Click the triangle pointing downwards on the offending Android Virtual Device to get a drop-down menu. Then, strike down upon Delete with great vengeance and furious anger. With that out of the way, click + Create Virtual Device.
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:
- 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.
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
Android Studio Mac Emulator
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.