Hello,
On Mac OS X, I've used the Xamarin Android SDK Manager to download, via the Platforms tab, these things:
Android 8.0
"Android SDK Platform", "Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image", Google Play Intel x86 Atom System Image"
Android 7.1
"Android SDK Platform", "Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image", "Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64 System Image", "Google APIS ARM EABI v7a System Image", "Google APIs ARM 64 v8a System image", "Google Play Intel x86 Atom System Image"
Android 7.0
"Android SDK Platform", "Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image", "Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64 System Image", "Google APIS ARM EABI v7a System Image", "Google APIs ARM 64 v8a System image", "Google Play Intel x86 Atom System Image"
My end goal is to have an phone emulator "device" to test out Android projects on a Mac machine via Visual Studio for Mac, which is using Android 7.0, 7.1 or 8.0. Yet, with all this stuff I installed, I STILL can't create a virtual device for any of those android versions.
In Visual Studio for Mac, I'm going to Tools > Google Emulator Manager. I click "Create..." to try and create a virtual device. For Device, I've tried picking Nexus 10, Nexus 9, Nexus One, 10.1" WXGA Tablet, etc. No matter what Device I pick, if I pick a target of Android 7.0. 7.1, or 8.0, the CPU/ABI section says "no system images installed for this target". But, for all these Devices, if I pick a target of Android 6.0, I always have CPU/ABI options of "Intel Atom (x86)" and "Intel Atom (x86_64)".
So in other words, I can only create Android 6 devices, but not Android 7 or higher. I've clearly done something with Android 6.0 in the past that allows me to create devices, but I have no idea what I did, since I can't get it to work for Android 7 or higher.
Anyone have suggestions on what I should be checking to allow me to properly create Android 7 AVDs?
Thanks for your time!