VISUAL STUDIO 2015 INSTALL ANDROID EMULATOR XMARIN HOW TO
Xamarin has a great article on how to install Google Play Services on their emulators, but it doesn't work with the Visual Studio Emulator. Other emulators like Xamarin's or GenyMotion use VirtualBox under the covers which doesn't work if you have Hyper-V enabled and I have had networking problems when it is installed and my laptop resumes from sleep. I prefer it because it is fast and uses Hyper-V. I mainly develop on Windows, so I have been using the great Visual Studio Emulator for Android. On Android, the map control requires that Google Play Services is installed, but most emulator images do include them. I am developing a Xamarin application that displays maps. Update: I have updated this post for 2017 here, I recommend that you read that instead.