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Xamarin Android Player is an Android emulator from Xamarin. It uses VirtualBox to run the Android images. Xamarin Android Player is now discontinued.

The Xamarin Android Player utilizes VT-x and AMD-V hardware accelerated virtualization and OpenGL 2.0.

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Xamarin Android Player / Visual Studio: Stuck at "Starting Emulator"

Using Visual Studio and Xamarin Android Player (XAP), I suddenly cannot get my app to deploy to the emulated device. The whole debug process gets stuck attempting to start the device and, after an hour or so, never gets any further. The emulator…
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Xamarin Android Player Error when attempting to find VirtualBox

I have a clean install of Windows 10. After installing Visual Studio 2015 and Xamarin Bussiness edition I installed Xamarin Android Player x64 and now I receive the following error: Error when attempting to find VirtualBox please check it's…
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Xamarin Android Player is unable to run API 21 or higher emulators

I'm using Xamarin Studio and Xamarin Android Player on my windows 10 PC. I'm having trouble starting Lollipop/Marshmallow (API 21/23) devices using the XAP, but on the other hand, launching Kitkat (API 19) works prefectly. I've downloaded the…
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VBoxManage command falied Xamarin android player error on windows

After installing Xamarin studio and Xamarin android player along with Oracle VirtualBox. I have created demo code and installed Nexus 4 (kitkat) virtual device in Android player but after running application Xamarin Android player gets started but…
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Error executing SQLite command: 'too many SQL variables' Azure PullAsync limitation in xamarin form android

This looks like limitation from Microsoft azure mobile client for offline sync service for android. In my xamarin form application i have 40 azure tables to sync with remote. Whenever the particular request(_abcTable.PullAsync) has the more number…
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Xamarin Android Exception causes "Frame not in module"

I am new to Xamarin and currently developing my first app with Android. I have deliberately created an exception as follows: throw new Exception("Whoops"); When I hit this line, the Emulator does not give any indication that there has been a…
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Xamarin Android Player

I'm just getting into trying out some Android development with Xamarin, and while going through the documentation about installing Xamarin for windows, I come finally to this…
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Xamarin Android Player : OpenGL server is unreachable

Now I'm facing an error while starting Xamarin Android Player. Error : OpenGL server is unreachable. Please check that Xamarin Android Player is allowed through your firewall on public networks. I'm using Windows8.1 (64-bit). Xamarin Android Player…
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Android 9 strange behaviour after app installation

I have a strange behaviour with Android 9, on launching the app for first time after installing from Play Store. On launching the app second time, the issue just disappear. So, there are 2 issues, which can alternate, but they are always there: 1-…
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Folder path of System.Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments of Xamarin.Android in windows

In my Xamarin Android app I am storing screen shots in the following path System.Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments. When I am running the app on windows simulator, where exactly this file get stored ? I searched almost my entire systen but no…
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Unable to select android emulator in Xamarin VS

I'm using Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Edition (Update 3), with Xamarin 4.2 installed. I have the emulators downloaded via Xamarin Android Player, however I don't have an option to select the emulators from Visual Studio (Refer attached image). VS…
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XAP failed to initialize device and virtualbox manager does not open

I updated windows recently.I also updated xamarin studio 6.1.1 and now not able to initialize the device. Everything was working perfectly before updates. I keep getting error: failed to initialize device. VBoxManage command failed.See log for…
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Cannot start a Virtual Device on Mac OS X El Capitan

I wanted to do the simple Tutorial available on the Xamarin Developer website but I faced an issue when I wanted to start a Virtual Device, indeed when I try to execute my project on any version of Nexus 4, 5 or 10, it starts and stops immediately…
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Xamarin Android Player with OpenGL ES 3.x

I want to install an app that requires OpenGL ES 3.0, however it looks like all of the device/android version pairings only use 2.0, even though from what I understand many of them should support it. Did I miss a particular combination, is there…
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Xamarin Android Player unable to find VirtualBox - How do I fix it?

I have created a Windows Phone 7 app using XNA 4.0 that I now want to port over to Android MonoGame. I am currently using a trial edition of Xamarin Business and I want to use an emulator to test the game as I do not currently have access to a…
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