Genymotion Android emulator for Xamarin

Question

I've problem about using Genymotion Android emulator for xamarin development.

I have intalled Genymotion desktop app and several Android devices within it. Whenever i run any of the installed device in Genymotion desktop app via start button, it works fine but there is no Genymotion emulator in the list of available emulators in Visual Studio, neither in Xamarin studio (There are only built-in Android Emulators and devices installed in Xamarin Android player).

I found some articles about using Genymotion Emulator for Xamarin and all of them says that :

Both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio with Xamarin discover it, no problem

I am using Visual Studio Enterprise Edition, Xamarin business editiorn and free edition of Genymotion, if that matters.

Answer 1

Genymotion needs to be running for Xamarin Studio (and thus Xamarin's VS plugin) to see it.

Once your Genymotion virtual device is actually running, then Xamarin will see it as a 'physical device' that it can deploy to.

Example: