So you're using Xamarin to build an app and all of a sudden, one day, out of the blue, like Xamarin just decided to hate you, it get's stuck on Starting emulator. Its speed and how buggy the debugging can be. This article attempts to cover a two of the most prominent issues when using an Android emulator with Xamarin. Android emulators can be a bit slow and when I say slow, I mean REALLY slow.