I had Android 7.1 as latest which does not conform to the latest Xamarin.Forms.Go to Tools / Android / Android SDK Manager and look out for updates.
#Xamarin for visual studio 2017 .dll#
(The same message shows up for .dll and as well) You need to increase the $(TargetFrameworkVersion) for your project Warning XA0105: The $(TargetFrameworkVersion) for FormsViewGroup.dll (vv8.0) is greater than the $(TargetFrameworkVersion) for your project (v7.1). It seems to be caused by an incomplete or wrong Android SDK installation and project configuration. I had these errors quite a while when I tried out a couple of things. Troubleshooting the default install of Xamarin with Visual Studio 2017 and Windows 10 Creators Update | Jeremy Lindsay for example).Įrror: No resource found that matches the given name: attr ‘colorPrimaryDark’ A couple of additional downloads are performed and some people reported problems with skipped downloads in cache (s. And you must not kill Visual Studio when running the first time. A rebuild of the solution helps in most case. In general I noticed that whenever I create a new project, there are almost always errors or warnings showing up when the project pretends to be ready. So updating to the most recent version (15.5.3 in my case) fixed this. I started with a fresh installation of Visual Studio 2017 15.5.0 but this has a couple of issues related to Xamarin development especially a broken project template. General Problems Update to the latest version, restart, rebuild, relax I ran into a couple of errors and warnings. I downloaded Visual Studio 2017 for Windows to try out Xamarin forms for platform dependent development.