How to Add an Image to Android Emulator Directly or through Visual Studio (Xamarin Project)

Question

I currently am creating an Android application using Visual Studio 2015 . It requires to have an image in the AVD to test the application.

How do we add image to our emulated Android device in Visual Studio ( Xamarin Project )?

I have seen some questions and answers to do so in Eclipse or Android Studio ( Java -based):

1. How to add an image to the emulator gallery in android studio?
2. How we save image in gallery of emulator
3. upload picture to emulator gallery

But I cannot find one to do it in Visual Studio .

If I try to use camera in my emulator, it shows camera error, cannot connect to camera.

So, naturally I am trying to find a way to just put an image directly to the emulated Android device's folder either through VS or directly.

Any idea?

Answer 1

So, naturally I am trying to find a way to just put an image directly to the emulated Android device's folder either through VS or directly.

You can use DDMS .

1. Run your emulator with VS 2015.

2. Open DDMS :

3. Use File Explorer to find storage -> emulated -> 0 ->Pictures folder.

4. Pull your picture from your PC to this folder.

5. Restart your AVD, then you can find the file from Photo or Gallery app.