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C# Introduction to Xamarin Cross-platform Development with Xamarin Debugging the Android App

James Hammond
James Hammond
1,297 Points

Cannot run Emulator through visual studio with basic project

Hello,

I am having an issue with building the project and running on android emulator.

The project doesn't even build (it's a brand new project, i havnt touched the code)

"There were deployment errors. Continue?" is the option i have.

So I havnt been able to see anything on the emulator at all. Just a black screen

Deploy failed.

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

This is a brand new course and I haven't worked with Xamarin before, but Android emulators will usually boot up like a regular phone/tablet and display a splash screen then a lock screen. I take it that's not happening? Are there messages that describe the errors?

1 Answer

Javier Mera
Javier Mera
16,472 Points

It sounds that if it fails to deploy, you will never see the installed app on the emulator. I found this on stackoverflow, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40694554/getting-there-were-deployment-errors-continue-error-in-visual-studio-2015-xa

I initially had an error after installing all xamarin dependencies in VS 2017 related to API 25 not being installed on my system, and that the project was targeting API 25. I simply downloaded the tools for 25 through the Android SDK manager, and it worked.