{"id":18190,"date":"2015-04-23T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=18190"},"modified":"2015-04-23T18:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T01:00:30","slug":"lollipop-for-xamarin-android-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/lollipop-for-xamarin-android-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Lollipop Support comes to the Xamarin Android Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWaiting for an emulator to boot or deploy is one of the most frustrating things about Android development. We built the <a href=\"http:\/\/xamarin.com\/android-player\">Xamarin Android Player<\/a> to provide a high-performance, hassle-free Android simulator, and to make Android development smooth and pleasant.<\/p>\n<h2>Introducing Lollipop Support<\/h2>\n<p>Starting today, when you launch the Xamarin Android Player you will see a brand new device image for Android 5.1 Lollipop enabling you to test against all of the latest Lollipop APIs with Material Design.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18200\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-21-at-6.30.38-PM.png\" alt=\"Xamarin Android Player Lollipop\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Help us improve<\/h2>\n<p>We released our first preview in October of last year and thousands of Xamarin developers have already used it to build and test Android apps. We&#8217;ve collected a lot of feedback, and the experience has already improved a lot.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re not done! Our goal is to install the Xamarin Android Player by default with Xamarin, and to replace the stock Google Android emulator with it. And we need your help. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/xamarin.com\/android-player\">download the Xamarin Android Player today<\/a> and give it a try. <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.xamarin.com\/enter_bug.cgi?product=Xamarin%20Android%20Player\">Report any issues that you find<\/a> so that we can keep improving.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Xamarin Android Player, be sure to read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.xamarin.com\/guides\/android\/getting_started\/installation\/android-player\/\" title=\"Xamarin Android Player Documentation\">documentation<\/a> on how to get started.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for an emulator to boot or deploy is one of the most frustrating things about Android development. We built the Xamarin Android Player to provide a high-performance, hassle-free Android simulator, and to make Android development smooth and pleasant. Introducing Lollipop Support Starting today, when you launch the Xamarin Android Player you will see a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1917,"featured_media":39167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-18190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developers","tag-android","tag-xamarin-platform"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Waiting for an emulator to boot or deploy is one of the most frustrating things about Android development. We built the Xamarin Android Player to provide a high-performance, hassle-free Android simulator, and to make Android development smooth and pleasant. Introducing Lollipop Support Starting today, when you launch the Xamarin Android Player you will see a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}