Xamarin stuck at “Found device: emulator-5554”

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Xamarin stuck at “Found device: emulator-5554”

I am currently learning Xamarin for Android app development. I installed the xamarin workload for visual studio a few days ago. Today I built a hello world app with Xamarin, tried to run it with an emulator. When I ran the app, everthing went fine until the device loaded succesfully, when the putput window in visual studio said Found device: emulator-5554.

At that point visual studio and the emulator ‘stopped’, not hanged, stopped. The status bar said Ready and the build animation that appears when building a project showed that the process was half completed. I waited for several minutes, but nothing changed. I tried to ‘preload’ the emulator like adviced on other stackoverflow questions, which again didn’t work.

UPDATE: Now Visual Studio is stuck at Waiting for emulator to be ready... which takes forever and never loads.

I work on Windows 10, Visual Studio 2019 Community with the Xamarin workload, along with the default Galaxy Nexus API 23 Android Emulator.

Thank You! Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

This is a common problem in Visual Studio when you use Android Emulator. You can try 2 ways for resolve this problem.

First way

• 1: Go in "Tools", then Android then Android Device Manager.
• 2: Run simulator
• 3: Then Start your project

Second way

• 1: Go in "Tools", then Android then Android Device Manager.
• 2: Delete all yours Android Simulators
• 3: Create a new Simulator
• 4: Run simulator
• 5: Then start your project

Let me know if works :)