Hello Android Developers!
I am pleased to let you all know that our friends at Microsoft have made is possible to use Visual Studio to develop Android based Cocos2d-x apps!
Check out this blog entry: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/07/12/cocos2d-x-visual-studio-android-project/#comment-152585
I tested it and it works! You must be on v3.12. Any version newer (GitHub repo) or older (< 3.12) will not work. It must be v3.12.
This is great news, I look forward to trying it out! debugging Android has always been a pain in the ass 
What about Mac users?
How to use it with cocos js
Its indeed great news, but it doesnāt support auto-complete. 
It will be complete if we have auto-complete with C++/SDKBOX-plugin/Java part
can it still be used with web?
How can I install it on mac 
? Iād rather use android studio, but not yetā¦ still alpha version has serious problemsā¦
Hey everyone. If slackmoehrle doesnāt mind me chipping in. Iām the developer at Microsoft who worked on this. As slackmoehrle noted this project only works with a specific version of Cocos currently (itās not integrated with the Cocos template system). However it is fairly easy to upgrade to newer versions, so I plan on continuing to support it for new Cocos versions when released. If you have any feedback on it, bugs, missing things, comments on the overall Visual Studio Cocos Android development experience, or anything of the sort Iāll watch the thread here, the comments on the VS blog post and I can also be reached by e-mail at ianhu@microsoft.com.
@smitpatel88. By auto complete do you mean that Intellisense was not working? Was this for the entire project?
Yes, Intelisense is not working for entire project.
Iāll take a quick peek at the local copy that I have and see if I can see what is going on.
edit: As a heads up, it might be early Monday that I can look at this.
It was already possible (and convenient) āto use Visual Studio to develop Android based Cocos2d-x apps!ā, now we get to use device debugging tools afaikā¦
and the ability to use VS to target Android and your Windows 8, 10, phone needs as well. No need for other tools.
@IanHu Thank you again so much for this! I added a title to your profile. PM me if you want it changed.
Currently autocomplete looks ok on my box.
Lemme ask around with the IntelliSense team to see if there is some diagnostic output that we might be able to get for why you are not seeing it. Annoyingly issues with this can be pretty hard to diagnose as I donāt have a local repro or a project that you could share with me to look at.
This seems great Iām gonna make some tests, I hope it also support third party libraries for ads, analytics. Iām starting to get bored with eclipse for this 
is CLang compulsory?
I am getting below 3 warning on opening project
warning : The build tools for Clang_3_8 cannot be found. Install Clang_3_8 to build using the Clang_3_8 build tools.
warning : Platform ā[ARM, 0]ā referenced in the project file āCocos2dcppā cannot be found.
warning : Platform ā[x86, 0]ā referenced in the project file āCocos2dcppā cannot be found.
Itās working well so far and actually produced a build that works flawlessly on a version of android that I was getting random Fatal signal 11 errors while building using the cocos command line. Great!
Two questions.
Thanks so much for this, itās so incredibly helpful. Debugging Android NDK was going to be the death of me!
Very cool.
Cannot compile my project which uses SDKBOX:
proj.visualstudio\Cocos2d\ARM\Debug\Package\src\org\cocos2dx\lib\Cocos2dxActivity.java:375: error: cannot find symbol
2> [javac] if(!SDKBox.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data)) {
2> [javac] ^
2> [javac] symbol: variable SDKBox
2> [javac] location: class Cocos2dxActivity
Any hint on integrating SDKBOX with this?
