Tag Archives: Android
How to create an x86 based Android Virtual Device with Xamarin or Visual Studio on Mac
Have you ever seen this info when you start debugging your Android Application on Mac? Running an x86 based Android Virtual Device (AVD) is 10x faster. We strongly recommend creating a new AVD. But when you create a new AVD you are not able to select x86 because only “ARM” is shown in the CPU-List?
Sending Xamarin Forms Push Notification to single recipient
In previous postings we have setup a Xamarin Forms App to send push notifications via Azure. The next step is now to reduce the number of recipients. Typically we don’t want to send a push notification to all our users. Fortunately only some new lines have to be added to the existing code.
Setup Xamarin Forms Android App for Push Notifications
Now that we have setup Microsoft Azure, Google Firebase Cloud Messaging and also our new Azure Mobile App, it’s time to update our existing Xamarin Forms App. First we start with the Android part as this is the easy one because it works on both Windows and Mac and push notifications also work fine in […]
Your Java version (1.7.0) is too old. You must have at least 1.8 installed.
After updating Xamarin for Visual Studio and Android SDK I got the following error message: Droid cannot build using Android 7.1 (API Level 25 – Nougat) because Your Java version (1.7.0) is too old. You must have at least 1.8 installed.
Android Emulator stays black on Xamarin Forms Apps
Suddenly Android Emulator does not work on my Xamarin Forms Project anymore. Don’t know why, but Xamarin only says “Starting Android_Accelerate_x86”, Android Emulator pops up but stays black and nothing happens….