android studio debug hangs after starting session

Is anyone else experiencing the same or similar problems.Īny help/advice would be gratefully received. This situation, for me at least, makes Xamarin development virtually unusable. I also tried uninstalling the app from the emulator before finishing the debugging session but this made no difference to succeeding debug attempts - the emulator still just hung. There is, apparently, no way to force the emulator to do a 'Cold Boot' each time it runs other than switching between VS2017 and VS2019.

After it does this the emulator just hangs. However, on all succeeding debug attempts with the same version of VS the emulator doesn't do a 'Cold Boot' but 'restores state' from, I presume, the previous session. When it does a 'Cold Boot' my app is successfully deployed and run in the emulator.

I tried switching between VS2017 and VS2019 and found that when I try to debug my app for the first time from either VS2017 or VS2019 the emulator does a 'Cold Boot'. This time the emulator just 'hung' during the deployment process.

Further to my last question where VS2019 failed to deploy my Xamarin Forms app to the Android emulator due to 'lack of space', I increased the 'memory' in the emulator settings and tried again.

Android studio debug hangs after starting session