Deploying a Xamarin Forms Android app to emulator is taking a long time

mshaaban

I have a Xamarin Forms application, when I try to run the Android application, the application is taking a lot of time and progress is stuck in the middle.

The deployment hangs after starting the emulator,

Do you have any idea how this could be resolved?

mshaaban

Grazi's reply solved my issue,

I solved it by accessing regedit.exe, navigating to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Android, and changing the SDK path to my Xamarin Mono Android SDK folder.

The path originally was C:\Users[User]\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk
then I changed to
C:\Users[User]\AppData\Local\Xamarin\MonoForAndroid\AndroidSDK
thent it worked

This link gave me the clue.

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/64088/android-emulator-opens-but-project-does-not-deploy-and-start

ShafiqIzwan

Have you tried this?

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/getting_started/installation/accelerating_android_emulators/

mshaaban

This is for Google Android emulator, I am using the Visual Studio emulator

Goofyx

I have the same problem. And I 'm using vs2015 with emulator for vs2015

mshaaban

Grazi's reply solved my issue,

I solved it by accessing regedit.exe, navigating to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Android, and changing the SDK path to my Xamarin Mono Android SDK folder.

The path originally was C:\Users[User]\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk
then I changed to
C:\Users[User]\AppData\Local\Xamarin\MonoForAndroid\AndroidSDK
thent it worked

This link gave me the clue.

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/64088/android-emulator-opens-but-project-does-not-deploy-and-start

AlbertK

Try this.
1) Close the Android Emulator
2) Open up Hyper-V Manager
3) Stop the VS Emulator if it is still running.
4) Select the VS Emulator, Right click and select Settings.
5) Expand on the Processor, select Compatibility
6) Tick the "Migrate to a physical computer with a different processor version"
7) Click Apply.

Hope this helps.

mshaaban

Thanks Albert for your reply,
The issue was in the register, there was a key for Android SDK path that needed to be changed. I corrected it and it's working

NTL_Dev

@mshaaban said:
Grazi's reply solved my issue,

I solved it by accessing regedit.exe, navigating to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Android, and changing the SDK path to my Xamarin Mono Android SDK folder.

The path originally was C:\Users[User]\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk
then I changed to
C:\Users[User]\AppData\Local\Xamarin\MonoForAndroid\AndroidSDK
thent it worked

This link gave me the clue.

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/64088/android-emulator-opens-but-project-does-not-deploy-and-start

My Originally was C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk
And I can not find any folder MonoForAndroid

NTL_Dev

@mshaaban said:
Grazi's reply solved my issue,

I solved it by accessing regedit.exe, navigating to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Android, and changing the SDK path to my Xamarin Mono Android SDK folder.

The path originally was C:\Users[User]\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk
then I changed to
C:\Users[User]\AppData\Local\Xamarin\MonoForAndroid\AndroidSDK
thent it worked

This link gave me the clue.

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/64088/android-emulator-opens-but-project-does-not-deploy-and-start

I don't see folder Android in Wow6432Node!