See Using the Visual Studio Emulator for Android from Android Studio or Eclipse with ADT Ho goes through in some details how to set things up with Android Studio or Eclipse (for the former, note, the ...

“As part of Visual Studio 2015, developers now get access to the Visual Studio Emulator for Android, a high-performance x86-based emulator for the Android platform that supports a variety of ...

Microsoft developers building software for Android have noticed this, so the company developed its own high-performance Android emulator. That emulator is included with Visual Studio 2015.

Microsoft said support for the Android emulator will be coming soon, but didn't give an exact timeframe. Mac users can sign-up to be notified when it's available from the Visual Studio website.

The Visual Studio Emulator for Android is a tool within the full Visual Studio 2015 suite, which Microsoft brought to Mac users for the first time back in April.

Anyone having performance issues with the android emulator (assuming you're not targeting assembly code) try creating a new AVD with the CPU architecture set to x86.