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Hi I am trying the Xamarin Live Player for Xamarin cross platform app development.

I did the following:

1) I have installed the Xamarin Live Player on my iphone from App Store

On Windows PC, I have downloaded and Installed VS2017 Community and created a small testing app

2) On Visual Studio 2017 Community, I installed the Xamarin Updater.

Problem: I dont see any Live Player to choose in VS2017 Community.

for above item (2) Visual Studio 2017 community is not the Same as Visual Studio 2017 Preview?? https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/live/install/

Is it ok to download it on the same PC?

Please advise the instruction to follows.

Update

I have installed VS2017 Preview and selected Mobile Development with .Net (I think this is xamarin cross platform )

I have downloaede the sample app: https://developer.xamarin.com/samples/mobile/LivePlayer/ColorControl/

And I still dont see the Xamarin Live player

Update

Finally, the Xamarin Live Player show up.

This is what I did:

a) After installing VS2017 Preview, launch the VS2017 Preview, got Tools> Extensions and Update

a1) Download all the Updates: Xamarin for visual Studio, XamarinApple SDK, Xamarin Android SDK, Mono Debugging for Visual Studio

Thanks

Bart Calixto
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You need to make sure you have the preview of VS 2017 15.3 and go to the Alpha channel in Xamarin.

Adam
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  • I m at lost. I hv installed and opened VS2017 Preview on Win10 PC. 1) Have paired the PC with iphone using Bluetooth. 2) Have turn on the Xamarin live player. I dont see the Selection for Live Player and I dont understand what is Alpha channel in Xamarin. Would Appreciate if you can show me the Steps. It is so confusion at this stage. please help. – MilkBottle May 18 '17 at 07:13
  • is this Xamarin Live Player only for Mac ?? like install VS2017 Preview on Mac. – MilkBottle May 18 '17 at 07:16
  • You can use it on Windows. That was its big selling point. Run an iOS app without a Mac. – Adam May 18 '17 at 09:14
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If Xamarin Live Player is still not showing up in the Device selection list after following @MilkBottle steps, you may need to go to Tools > Options > Xamarin > Other - and select "Enable Xamarin Live Player".

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  • When navigating down Tools > Options > Xamarin, I do not have the "Other" option enabled. I see "Android Setting" and "iOS Setting" but not "Other". I've got VS 2017 installed along with Xamarin, as well as the newest updates for both. Is there something that I am missing? – SQL and Java Learner Sep 25 '17 at 01:46
  • You need to download VS 2017 preview to use Xamarin live player. – steepestascent Sep 25 '17 at 12:22
  • Thanks. I didn't know that that the preview edition was a separate download. Once I grabbed that from Microsoft I was able to find the correct options. – SQL and Java Learner Sep 26 '17 at 03:04