


While HAXM is a download, Hyper-V comes with Windows but is turned off by default.

You'll need to pick one or the other but my experience has been that, with either, while the emulators ran faster, they were still slower than I was willing to live with. You can speed them up either by downloading and installing Intel's Hardware Accelerated eXecution Manager (HAXM) or turning on Windows Hyper-V virtualization platform (assuming your processor and version of Windows support either). My experience with them has been that they are both slow and buggy. One option is to use the emulators delivered with the Android SDK. So, be aware: The recommendations in this column may already be out of date. This is an area, however, where new releases (and whole new software packages) are coming out weekly. This is a report on my experience and what has, in the end, worked for me. Your phone can be connected to your computer with either a USB cable or through WiFi. You can debug your application in an emulator or on your own smartphone. When it comes time to debug your Xamarin Android apps, you have several options.
