Why doesn't Visual Studio 2019 show the emulator once it is started in 'Visual Studio Emulator for Android'?

Question

I have recently uninstalled Visual Studio 2017 Community edition and installed Visual Studio 2019 Community edition on my PC at home.

I have never managed to get hardware acceleration working because of the problems described here: https://superuser.com/questions/1482586/cannot-launch-an-x86-android-emulator-using-hyperv-but-can-with-haxm-why

However, using Visual Studio 2017 I could use 'Visual Studio Emulator for Android' in the Start menu as shown below:

I would launch one of the emulators and it would appear in Visual Studio 2017 for debugging as shown below:

However, Visual Studio 2019 does not show the emulator in Visual Studio once it is started in 'Visual Studio Emulator for Android'. Is there something I need to configure to get this working?

Answer 1

I found an answer to your question in Developer Community

Please, Take a look at the comment of @Pierce Boggan

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The Visual Studio Emulator for Android has been deprecated in Visual Studio 2019. More information is available here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/porting/port-migrate-upgrade-visual-studio-projects-2019?view=vs-2017

For developers who want to develop Android applications, but have a requirement on Hyper-V, we worked with Google to introduce support for Hyper-V acceleration to the official Android emulators. This means you can use Google’s Android emulator side-by-side with other Hyper-V based technologies, including Hyper-V VMs, Docker tooling, the HoloLens emulator, and more. This also means that any Android developer on Windows, who also uses Hyper-V, can use a fast Android emulator that will always support the latest Android APIs, works with Google Play Services out of the box, and works with all features in the Android emulator, including camera, geolocation, and Quick Boot.

More information on configuration is available here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/get-started/installation/android-emulator/hardware-acceleration?pivots=windows#accelerating-with-hyper-v