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Unable to Create Android Simulated Devices using Visual Studio's Device Manager for macOS
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Nitish Chauhan
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My issue is when I try to create an Android Simulated Device through the Visual Studio For Mac Device Manager it results in the following exception in logs on the "avdmanager" command. This results in the same exception regardless of which API Version I target.
*java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/sdklib/tool/AvdManagerCli has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 61.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 55.0
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I have re-installed using the installer Visual Studio 17 for Mac also using the clean script found in documentation. I was also able to build the AVD simulated device using Android Studio successfully on API 33 amr64-v8a. Why is Visual Studio unable to? While using Android Studio is a work-around, I'd like to use a single IDE to develop (especially because I'm paying hundreds for it and Android Studio is free).
Not sure if it matters but I have installed the open-jdk-11 and that made no difference. I also set my JAVA_HOME to point directly to my jdk.
Specs:
Visual Studio for Mac Professional 2022 v17
Mac Mini Apple M2 chip
Developer technologies .NET .NET MAUI
Developer technologies Visual Studio Other
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Bruce (SqlWork.com) 77,686 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2024-01-30T16:59:10.46+00:00 visual studio for Mac is being retired August of this year.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/what-happened-to-vs-for-mac?view=vsmac-2022
you might as well pick a replacement now. Microsoft is offering visual studio code (not really an ide) or Visual Studio for windows running in a vm. The other option is jet brains rider.
this might be time to evaluate switching to kotlin and jetpack compose.
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Nitish Chauhan 81 Reputation points
2024-01-30T17:32:47.11+00:00 Sadly both of those experiences have their own sets of flaws. Currently VSCode has some issue with arm64 runtime being hard-coded and Rider breaks sometimes. It seems odd to deliver a new MAUI framework, retire the old (Xamarin) and then provide no stable way to develop in it.
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Bruce (SqlWork.com) 77,686 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2024-01-30T17:47:52.92+00:00 Once VS for Mac was cancelled, I lost all interest in Maui. When dotnet can productive native libraries, I may revisit c# for shared mobile code.
note: we have tried several mobile cross compiler tool chains, and always ended up with more tool chain issues, then shared code savings. We just do native apps in Swift/SwiftUI & Kotlin/Compose. The languages are similar enough, that it's not too bad to rewrite shared code.
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