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Android Emulator Not Shown In Debug Menu On First Start In Visual Studio 2019

Emre 1 Reputation point
2021-12-16T00:26:52.21+00:00

I have a weird problem going on with Android Emulators in Visual Studio 2019. Whenever I launch a new instance of VS2019 my emulator devices do not show up in the debug menu. The debug toolbar comes up with an empty list:

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Although I have devices installed:

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But when I go into SDK Manager and change something like installing or removing a new/existing SDK or tool, even the unrelated ones, the emulators suddenly start appearing in the list again:

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And I can debug with no problems. But after this step if I close and re-launch Visual Studio or start a new instance without closing, everything goes back to step 1.

I've tried every solution I could find online and nothing seems to do the trick.

  • My Visual Studio version : Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019 Version 16.11.7
  • I'm running VS as admin
  • Android Emulator version : 31.1.4
  • I also have Android Studio Installed ( I don't know if it has anything to do with this issue.)
  • OS : Windows 10 Pro 19043.1348

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Developer technologies .NET Xamarin

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