Visual Studio 2022, Maui, Android Emulator: unable to change amount of memory
Visual Studio 2022, Maui 7.0, Android Emulator 32.1.1 (everything is the latest, up to date)
Working on a Maui App, and just got to the point where I need the app to play videos, so I installed the CommunityToolkit.Maui.MediaElement.
What's the problem?
It ran about twice until I started getting this exception, regardless of what virtual Android device was used:
Error: ADB0060: Mono.AndroidTools.InsufficientSpaceException: There is not enough storage space on the device to store package: /data/local/tmp/com.aaavisiologix.ems_mobile_maui-Signed.apk. Free up some space and try again.
The Googling only leads me to how to free up space using Android Studio, not using Visual Studio. There is this Microsoft site, but if there's something on there about how to solve my problem, I couldn't understand it.
What did I try?
I open the Android Device Manager in Visual Studio (Tools -> Android -> Android Device Manager), and it's apparent that my devices don't have a lot of memory:
So maybe I can make that a larger number? Except I don't know how. Nothing in the "edit specific device" options were very helpful, except for the very first option: disk,dataPartition.size, of which I tried every value one can think of. This didn't change the amount of memory (still 1 GB) or the behavior of the device (still got exception).
I always make sure that I keep my test programs uninstalled on the machine, so... shouldn't that take care of any data I'm storing using SecureStorage or SQLite?
In the Microsoft doc it says to select the "Reveal In Explorer" option when you right-click on a device in Android Device Manager. Alas, when I do that I get this error:
C:\Users...\avd\devicename.avd is unavailable. IF the location is on this PC, make sure the device or drive is connected or the disc is inserted...
How can I continue forward?
First of all, the 1GB in the first image is the value of the hw.ramsize not the disk,dataPartition.size. It's the RAM memory.
In addition, I have checked the default value of the disk,dataPartition.size in my android emulator. It's 6442450944 bytes(6 GB). If you set it as 4G, you are reducing the memory.
So you can try to set a bigger value such as 8GB, 12GB or a bigger one for the disk,dataPartition.size.