Restart Visual Studio and your device should show up in Visual Studio. If everything worked (if not you can write here a comment and Ill try to help you) you will see your device listed among the available devices (where Local. When you connect USB, most probably, USB is set for File Transfer or Media Transfer. If phone asks you to enable debugging, click “Yes”. (You will need to search for this option in a long list of options.) Search for “USB Debugging” and turn it on.Here are the steps to enable USB Debugging. Make sure you have followed above steps to enable Developer Options/Mode. This options is available only after you have enabled Developer Options/Mode.
If above steps does not work for you, try searching for instructions for enabling Developer Options online. Typically tapping 7 times would enable the Developer Mode. Android will show a message that in X amount of clicks you will enable Developer Options/Mode. Here are the steps to enable Developer Options/Mode.
Make sure that you have enabled Developer Options/Mode. If the android device does not show up in the list as expected, here are 2 reasons why it is not showing up and what you can do.įollowing items are needed in order to show Android Device in Visual Studio. Now it is a time to test on real android device.įollowing advice from online resources, you would have connected your android phone/tablet to your development machine and expected your device to show up in the list in Visual Studio. You have developed and tested your Xamarin app on android emulator.
