When developing a small Xamarin forms app I wanted the android emulator to connect to an intranet identity provider. That didn’t work. The id server was using an SSL certificate issued by an untrusted CA. Here’s what I did to get it working.

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First, you will need the CA certificate so android can trust the SSL cert. If you don’t have the cert, you can export it using Chrome on mac or Chrome on windows:

Exporting certificate using chrome

Rooted Android Emulator Macro

Next, push the .cer to the emulator using adb push command. Note that even though I’m pushing the cert to the sdcard it actually shows in a different location. I’m not sure why my emulator is doing that but I’ve seen others that work just fine. Just make sure to search in all folders when installing the cert in the emulator.

Before installing the certificate, you will need to enable device lockscreen security. Finally, install the certificate using Settings app:

Importing certificate to Android Emulator

After import, you can check your certs in User credentials under Encryption & credentials and more importantly, navigate to the SSL site without errors.

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Rooted Android Emulator Mac M1

Cheers!