Cant use Android Emulator in Visual Studio with Windows 7

Question

I can't use the in-built Android Emulator in Visual Studio for Android when creating an Android App with Xamarin . It wont start and wont display anything. Also, the XAML- Previewer seems to be malfunctioning and only shows the logo of the previewer.

I installed all required software, made sure it was up to date and also enabled everything (Hyper-V, etc.) and it still wont work.

My Rig is working with Windows 7 and has a FX-8350 Processor .

Answer 1

So I had a hard time finding the answer to why I couldn't use the in-built Android Emulator that comes with Xamarin on my Windows 7 (64-Bit) machine. The answer to why this is the case, and I hope I can help people stop wasting time finding the solution, is that you need a processor which comes with a virtualization feature. Intels i- Series upwards and also the Ryzen AMD processors implement these. Also, you need to have installed Windows 10 and enable the Hyper-V technology. I just wanted to share this, though it seemed to be obvious, I tried a few hours finding out why I couldnt get my Emulator to work.

This shows that it is the case for the XAML- Previewer