The main landing that I can’t ever seem to remember to start with is actually here: Installing and Setting Up Xamarin.Android – Xamarin Installing and Setting Up Xamarin.Android – Xamarin How to install and configure Xamarin.Android to work with Visual Studio. Source: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/get-started/installation/ The next important part is when you are setting up HAXM (for intel based chips) From a cmd window. sc query intelhaxm  (and if it is not already installed go here HAXM Release on GitHub sc stop intelhaxm – to stop the service sc start intelhaxm – to start the service You can also use Hyper-V (sometimes I have issue with this method because it likes to…