Not sure which is setup by default; there is the Android SDK emulator and the newer Hyper-V based Visual Studio Emulator for Android. Based on @snarfy's comment

Not sure which is setup by default; there is the Android SDK emulator and the newer Hyper-V based Visual Studio Emulator for Android. Based on @snarfy's comment elsewhere, I'm guessing the Xamarin installer isn't installing the VS emulator. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13176438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13176438 https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/deployment,_testing,_and_metrics/debug-on-emulator/visual-studio-android-emulator/ https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/deployment,_tes...