title: Nativescript emulator installation headaches
body: <p>I've been trying to get emulators to work for NativeScript on my brand new clean Windows 10 laptop for three days and nothing is working.  </p>
  
  <p>To be more accurate, I think I was able to get the 'emulator-5554' to launch, but it doesn't not load the Groceries app.</p>
  
  <p>I have all the Angular requirements installed since I also build Angular SPAs and they work fine.  I read and followed all these articles, and I still can't get emulators to work.</p>
  
  <p>I even installed GenyMotion, but it is not detected. I have not installed Android Studio since I'll be developing with Visual Studio Code, so I used the Android CLI to install the SDK.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://docs.nativescript.org/start/general-requirements" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.nativescript.org/start/general-requirements</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://docs.nativescript.org/start/introduction" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.nativescript.org/start/introduction</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://docs.nativescript.org/start/cli-basics" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.nativescript.org/start/cli-basics</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://docs.nativescript.org/tooling/android-virtual-devices?_ga=2.188319272.1221867054.1547512018-618552819.1547075699" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.nativescript.org/tooling/android-virtual-devices?_ga=2.188319272.1221867054.1547512018-618552819.1547075699</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://docs.nativescript.org/start/quick-setup" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.nativescript.org/start/quick-setup</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://docs.nativescript.org/start/ns-setup-win" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.nativescript.org/start/ns-setup-win</a> - this was my primary emulator setup</p>
  
  <p>I have also read many SO posts and none have solved my problem.</p>
  
  <p>Is there some documentation somewhere that is simple and clear, with step by step instructions on how to get emulators installed that will work with Nativescript?  What am I missing?</p>
  
  <p><em>BTW, when I connect my Samsung Galaxy S8 Active phone to my laptop, it's not recognized by the <code>tns device</code> command either.</em></p>
  
  <p><em>I can't believe it's this difficult to get emulators to work.  I also can't believe that the Nativescript documentation has left this information out of their instructions.</em></p>