Emulator options
There are a number of emulators for compiled Xamarin projects for the target platform and the development environment. Developers have most flexibility with the emulator for the Android platform, whereas the options for iOS and Windows Store Apps are limited to the SDK-provided emulators.
Emulators for Android
Android applications can be run and tested on a number of emulators on both Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X operating systems.
Android SDK comes with the default emulator that is installed on the development machine. This emulation option is available both on OS X and Windows operating systems.
Figure 9: AVD and Genymotion Emulators ...
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