Because the emulator was only recently introduced, the current release of Visual Studio will not work with the emulator. To use the Android emulator, you are going to need Visual Studio installed on your Windows 10 machine. You can see the Windows Hypervisor Platform shown in the image below. Now, select the options for both Hyper-V and the Windows Hypervisor Platform. Next, click the option to turn Windows features on or off. To install the required components, open Control Panel and then go to Programs, followed by Programs and Features. In case you are not familiar with the Windows Hypervisor Platform, it is a component that allows third-party virtualization stacks and applications to be used.
To run the Android emulator, you will need to install both Hyper-V and the Windows Hypervisor Platform. Windows Server is not yet supported, although it seems likely that we will see Windows Server support for the emulator in the near future. Before I beginīefore I get started, I need to point out that the Android emulator currently only works on the Windows 10 version of Hyper-V. As such, I thought that it might be fun to work through the setup. One of the announcements that caught my attention at this year’s Microsoft Build conference was that it there is now an Android emulator that has been specifically designed to work with Hyper-V.
