Visual Studio Emulator for Android is a tool that allows Android developers to test and debug their apps from the desktop OS of their choosing.

The Visual Studio Emulator for Android is a tool within the full Visual Studio 2015 suite, which Microsoft brought to Mac users for the first time back in April.

That emulator is included with Visual Studio 2015. The emulator should (eventually) work standalone, too, so developers using Eclipse (the default Android development environment) will also be ...

As Microsoft evolves its emulator to be more flexible, it becomes a more attractive way for developers to test their apps. The new emulator was released yesterday with CTP6.