Quick Start Tutorial: Manual Or Quick Way Of Xamarin And Simulator Installation

Installation of Xamarin

This part of the article explains about the quick or manual way of Xamarin installation and it is completely based on Windows installation.

Note

As per my personal experience, don’t install Xamarin via VS2015. It will take lot of time (Generally VS 2015 installation takes more time to install the software).

Installation steps are divided into three parts,

1. Android installation
2. Xamarin
3. Xamarin Android player simulator

Android installation

1. Java SDK version
   
   Java SDK Version must be 32 bit version; whether system is in 64 bit architecture.
   
   Download JDK version from here.
   
   Accept the license agreement and download the software.
   
   
   
   
2. Android SDK Install
   
   Install Android SDK and download the file below link Download:
   
   
3. Android NDK (Native Development Kit) Download:
   
   
   
   
4. Android SDK Manager
   
   After successful installation of the Android SDK, open SDK manager.
   
   
   1. Tools must be installed.
      
      
   2. Select the Android version (learning purpose will install the latest version of API). SDK platform and Google APIs should be installed. With system image, you can install all or based on the needs install the specific image.
      
      
      
      
5. Mono GTK
   
   This is an optional package for Windows. If you are using Visual studio, this package installation is not required, Xamarin studio is required to be installed.