Sunday, November 23, 2014

Visual Studio: Android Emulator

Microsoft Visual Studio: cross-platform Application Development



"x86 emulation and Hyper-V deliver fast startup and reliable performance. The emulator appears as a standard debug target. (In Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, Visual Studio sees the running emulator as an Android device.)"

Introducing Visual Studio’s Emulator for Android - Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management - Site Home - MSDN Blogs


Android can run "native" on x86 machines, but default emulator from Eclipse

is emulating ARM processor, and that is slow. Xamarin introduced faster Android emulator based on x86, and now Microsoft did the same. It could be used for "native" mobile apps as well as for Cordova/PhoneGap.








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