XAMARIN Visual Studio 2017 - Android Emulator Black Screen - xamarin

I've recently run into the problem of the Android Emulator not deploying and showing a black screen instead.
I've been working on this problem for 24 hours now and I can't seem to fix it.
Even a blank Xamarin.Forms Project causes the Black Screen. I guess the path of the Android SDK might be wrong? (but I don't know how to fix it...)?

I got it resolved by running VS as administrator
Try it out.

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After read this question
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https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Application-Output-purple-window/10180164
Remove contents for your Visual Studio version in these folders:
~/Library/Preferences/VisualStudio/17.3
~/Library/Caches/VisualStudio/17.3/
~/Library/Application\ Support/VisualStudio/17.3/
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Now, for some reason if I do the same, those changes are not applied in the Android Emulator. In order to see any change, I need to close the emulator and click the green play button again every time.
For example, if I want to change the FontColor of a label to be Blue instead of Black in XAML, before just clicking the restart button was enough to see the change. For any C# change, clicking the stop button and then the play button was enough as well.
Now, to see the same result I have to close the emulator and reload it again. Which take some time.
Has anyone have faced the same problem? Any help/ clue would be ver helpful?
Thanks!
#MikePR
I suggest to get rid of the Hyper-V based VS Android Emulator and use the Intel HAXM
native Emulator. I experienced much simular
issues with Hyper-V emulator, too.
Or much better get rid of any emulator and use
vysor.io and visualize your real device like an
emulator on your desktop. My personal favorit.
Hope it is helpful.
PS: Never in life use GenyMotion. That doesn't work in Remote Desktop Sessions and only runs
on windows machines with OpenGL 2.0 installed
and HAXM and Hyper-V disabled. I currently had that disappointing experience.
A really cool tool for XAML Preview is Gorilla Player!

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I kept at the same state for 1 hour, but still no hope.
I tried with Visual Studio 2012, but I am facing the same issue.
i installed all the necessary applications as per Xamarin Installer. What else I would need to do?
Can anyone help me to troubleshoot the issue.
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Could you please confirm that you've setup Xamarin latest version in both Windows & Mac PC?
And as per below screenshot of Visual Studio, you see list of iPhone Simulators?
And as per the second highlighted image "Show iOS Simulator" button, when you click on that image, it invokes iOS simulator on your MAC?

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