Once you enable the container platform in windows, and enable the bios setting for virtualization, it should just work, when I get back to my home computer I will look the details
Alright, so I just made a run of it and verified it all works.
As you say, the tutorial from Microsoft is for VS[0], but it actually talks about the android emulator, which is the same thing that Android Studio uses, just make sure you update it to latest, atm it's 27.3.10
Admittedly, the startup time seems a bit longer than with HAXM, but otherwise the emulation is pretty responsive.
[0]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/get-started...