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So far after much investigation, I got as far as finding Tools->Archive Manager in Visual Studio 2017; however, I have no idea where to put archives to be viewed in this manager.

Other than Current Solution there is an All Archives menu on the left side, which looks like a Global repository, but I cannot seems to add anything to it.

Drag-n-drop does nothing either. I even tried creating a new Android project and dropping the .apk files into the bin folder and still nothing, so I'm at a loss.

Is it not possible to open 3rd-party APK files in Visual Studio (the ones I have are unsigned) in order to sign and test it in the emulator?

James Wilkins
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  • No it is not. If you want to sign/test an apk, directly use the Android SDK cmd line tools. – SushiHangover Apr 19 '18 at 02:26
  • Why not use [keytool](https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing.html#signing-manually) to sign your apk, and use [adb](https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb.html?) to install and test the apk on your emulator？ – Robbit Apr 24 '18 at 01:27
  • Why bother with the command line when I can easily use Android Studio? lol The question was checking if I can do it via the Visual Studio IDE, and if not, the answer would be "No". I have no objections doing it another way. – James Wilkins Apr 25 '18 at 16:29

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