Configuring the Android emulator

Visual Studio will use the Android emulators provided by Google. If we would like the emulator to be fast, then we need to ensure that it is hardware-accelerated. To hardware-accelerate the Android emulator, we need to install the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM), which can be downloaded from https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager-intel-haxm.

The next step is to create an Android Emulator. First, we need to ensure that the Android emulator and the Android OS images are installed. To do this, go through the following steps:

  1. Go to the Tools tab to install the Android Emulator:
  1. We also need to install one or multiple images to use with the ...

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