
It’s the 1939 Buick Hot Rod of the i7’s, but as a bonus, I never have to turn on the heating in the study on cold winter days.īy the way, if the Android emulator seems to be stuck in the “preparing” phase, you might want to check if you have internet connection sharing enabled – it does not seem to like that either. It’s one of ye good olden 970 3.20 Ghz monsters, from the time power efficiency was not quite very high on the Intel agenda yet. This issue only seems to be occurring on the newer generation of processors, which explains why I never saw it before – I ran this on a brand new Surface Pro 4, where I used to run the emulators on my big *ss desktop PC, whose i7 processor dates back to 2011. The fact that the solution is hard to find with only the error message made me decide to write a blog post about it anyway.


The first error – the missing, which is usually hidden in a plethora of messages - is easy to fix: disable Android fast deployment. The issue is solely the debugger not being able to connect. Oddly enough, when you start the deployed app on the emulator by clicking on it, it runs fine. This actually even happens when you do File/New Project and run, which is very frustrating.

This kept me puzzled for a while, and only with the combined help of my fellow MVPs Mayur Tendelkar and Tom Verhoeff, who both had pieces of the puzzle, I was able to finally get this working.Īs you try to deploy an app to the Visual Studio Android emulator, symptoms are as follows: While I was busy developing a cross-platform application for Windows Phone, Android and iOS I wanted to test the Android implementation and ran into a snare – I could no longer debug on the emulator.
