Visual Studio Xamarin no longer displaying Android Emulators or phones to deploy too

Question

I am using Xamarin on Visual Studio to create a few different android apps. All of a sudden (after installing drivers for me new phone - OneP;us 5t) my visual studio has stopped allowing me to deploy to a phone or an emulator.

Before where it says "start" it would be a drop down list of all the devices I want to deploy it to but it won't show them anymore. I haven't changed any settings or altered anything. I also have an AVD created and also an android phone plugged in and it won't recognise either.

Any idea what could of caused this and how to fix it?

PS, I'm using visual studio 2017.

Answer 1

You need to upgrade your Android SDK Tools to v26+ and create a virtual device using the new tooling.

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/getting_started/installation/android-emulator/xamarin-device-manager/

The emulator manager tool that you are using has been deprecated by Google and thus does not appear in Visual Studio.