It supports device profiles to configure even the most exotic android setups.It has a lot of features, such as multi-touch, location, driving simulations, accelerometer, screen orientation, SD card, battery, GPS, camera, audio or keyboard.It can be installed and used without Visual Studio.The details about the emulator can be found here: About 35 minutes after reading the blog post by Miguel de Icaza, my app was running in the emulator! No errors, no crash, no frustration! That was the discovery of the day! Jiiihaaaaa…. I have spent so much time fiddling around with android emulators and I could not believe it. I thought something along the lines of “hm, interesting” and then tried it out. And, the last sentence mentions that the Xamarin Android Player (XAP) is therefore officially deprecated!!!
In the section “New Mac OS X Universal Installer”, a sidenote mentions that there is a new (and improved) Android Emulator from Google and that there is an improved Hyper-V based Android Emulator for VS2015.
From the first day that I have been using Xamarin for cross-platform development, it was a struggle.