Using the Xamarin Android SDK Manager. Visual Studio includes an Android SDK Manager that replaces Googles standalone SDK Manager. This guide explains how to use the SDK Manager to download Android SDK tools, platforms, and other components that you need for developing Xamarin. Android apps. Overview. This guide explains how to install and use the Xamarin Android SDK. Manager for Visual Studio on Windows or. Mac. This guide explains how to install and use the Xamarin Android SDK. Manager for Visual Studio for Mac or. Windows. Note This guide applies only to Visual Studio 2. Visual Studio for Mac. Bad Boy Cs 1.6. The Xamarin Android SDK Manager helps you download the latest Android. Xamarin. Android app. It replaces Googles standalone SDK Manager, which has been deprecated. In version 2. 5. 2. Download ES File Explorer for Android. Solid Explorer. Solid Explorer is another powerful file manager for Android that can fulfill just about all of your data. ASTRO File Manager is another popular and powerful choice for Android file management. ASTRO includes both local and cloud storage management features in a single. I just installed the Android Eclipse Plugin and the Android SDK from Google yesterday. I open the AVD Manager window by going to Window Android Virtual Device. Android 1. 0, the first commercial version of the software, was released on September 23, 2008. The first commercially available Android device was the HTC Dream. These apps can help you manage and manipulate documents on the go. Learn about the Android file system and directory structure and understand how it differs from windows. Learn how android uses partitions to organise data. Ive been using this since a good 2 years now, and I just noticed that I have not rated it. This app made my file exploring life a whole lot easier. Android SDK Tools package, Google introduced a. Android SDK installed on a. This new tool, sdkmanager. ANDROIDHOMEtoolsbin. GUI manager for the Android SDK. C3pXyF1KQX8TgHwahzuRaNowmjllN3Jajt7Rvp-CoZ4JNCNp2RogNUFALlj6cdfZsw=h900' alt='Android File Using Manager' title='Android File Using Manager' />Xamarin for Visual Studio has been updated so that a developer can. Android SDK installation with the convenience of a. GUI based tool that is compatible with this change in the Android SDK. The Xamarin Android SDK Manager is available in the latest Visual Studio 2. Preview. Visual Studio for Mac has been updated so that a developer can maintain. Android File Using Manager' title='Android File Using Manager' />Android SDK installation with the convenience of a GUI based tool. Android SDK tools. Requirements. To use the Xamarin Android SDK Manager, you will need the following Visual Studio 2. Users of Visual Studio 2. SDK Manager tools provided by Google in the Android SDK. Xamarin for Visual Studio version 4. The Xamarin Android SDK Manager can be used standalone, or you can. Visual Studio 2. 01. Please see the release notes for. SDK Manager. The Xamarin Android SDK Manager is not compatible with Visual Studio 2. Visual Studio for Mac 7. Please see the release notes for. SDK Manager. Installation. To install the Xamarin Android SDK Manager, please use the latest Visual Studio 2. Preview. When you click Tools Android Android SDK Manager as explained. Xamarin Android SDK Manager will be launched instead of the. Google Android SDK Manager. If you are using an earlier version of the. Android SDK that supports Googles standalone Android SDK Manager. Xamarin Android SDK Manager will not create a conflict. Google SDK Manager from. Visual Studio to manage the Android SDK. SDK Manager. To start the SDK Manager in Visual Studio, click Tools Android. Android SDK Manager To start the SDK Manager in Visual Studio for Mac, click Tools SDK Manager The Xamarin Android SDK Manager opens in the Android SDKs and. Tools screen. This screen has two tabs Platforms and. Tools The Android SDKs and Tools screen is described in more detail in. The Android SDK Manager opens in the Preferences window, which. Platforms, Tools, and Locations The tabs of the Xamarin Android SDK Manager are described in the. Android SDK Location. The Android SDK location is configured at the top of the Android SDKs. Tools screen, as seen in the previous image. This location must. Platforms and Tools tabs. You may need to set the location of the Android. SDK for one or more of the following reasons The Xamarin SDK Manager was unable to locate the Android SDK. You have installed the Android SDK in a alternate non default location. To set the location of the Android SDK, click the button to. Android SDK Location. This opens the Browse For. Folder dialog to use for navigating to the location of the Android. SDK. In the following screenshot, the Android SDK under Program Files. Android is being selected When you click OK, the Xamarin Android SDK Manager will manage. Android SDK that is installed at the selected location. Locations Tab. The Locations tab has three settings for configuring the locations. Android SDK, Android NDK, and the Java SDK JDK. These. locations must be configured correctly before the Platforms and. Tools tabs will function properly. When the SDK Manager starts, it automatically determines the path for. Found by placing a. Click the Reset to Defaults button to cause the SDK Manager to look. SDK, NDK, and JDK at their default locations. Typically, you use the Locations tab to modify the location of the. Android SDK andor the Java JDK. You do not need to install the NDK to. Xamarin. Android apps the NDK is used only when you need. G Usb Universal Host Controller Driver'>82801G Usb Universal Host Controller Driver. C and. C. Tools Tab. The Tools tab displays a list of tools and extras. Use this tab. to install the Android SDK tools, platform tools, and build tools. Also, you can install the Android Emulator, the low level debugger. LLDB, the NDK, HAXM acceleration, and Google Play libraries. For example, to download the Google Android Emulator package, click the. Android Emulator and click the Apply Changes. For example, to download the Google Android Emulator package, click the. Android Emulator and click the Install Updates. A dialog may be shown with the message, Some components can be. Do you want to update them nowClick Yes. Next, a. License acceptance dialog is shown Click Accept if you accept the Terms and Conditions. At the bottom. of the window, a progress bar indicates download and installation. After the installation completes, the Tools tab will show. Platforms Tab. The Platforms tab displays a list of platform SDK versions along. This screen lists the Android version such as Android 7. Nougat, the API level such as 2. Installed if the platform is installed. You use the Platforms. Android API level that you want to. Android versions and API levels, see. Understanding Android API Levels. If all components of a platform are installed, a checkmark appears next. If not all components of a platform are. You can expand a platform to see its components and which components. Click to unexpand the component listing for a platform. You can expand a platform to see its components and which components. Click down arrow to unexpand the component listing for a platform. To add another platform to the SDK, click the box next to the platform. Apply Changes To install only the SDK click the box next to the platform once. You can then select any individual components. Notice that the number of components to install appears next to the. Apply Changes button. In the above example, six components are. After you click the Apply Changes button, you. License Acceptance screen Notice that the number of components to install appears next to the. Apply Changes button. After you click the Apply Changes button. License Acceptance screen Click Accept if you accept the Terms and Conditions. You may see. this dialog more than one time when there are multiple components to. At the bottom of the window, a progress bar will indicate. When the download and installation. Installed. Now youre ready to develop your app for the latest, greatest Android. API level Summary. This guide explained how to install and use the Xamarin Android SDK. Manager tool in Visual Studio. This guide explained how to use the Xamarin Android SDK Manager tool. Visual Studio for Mac.