How to resolve : unexpected error occured Initiali

Question

Bringing up a new PC with Xamarin and VS 2015 Pro I received the following error:

An unexpected error occurred trying to initialize Android Designer. Please verify the Android SDK path and the Java Development Kit path on Tools->Options->Xamarin->Android Settings menu. Please see the logs for more details.

I verified the SDK's are installed correctly. VS didn't generate any kind of Activity Log so I believe the log must lie elsewhere. Anyone know where I can find this log to find out more about what is wrong ?

Answer 1

before you go through all that trouble (and I went through many convoluted steps myself for several hours) please try run your VisualStudio as administrator and see what happens!

It solved the above issue (and then some) for me. I used fresh WIN 10 and VS2015 Community install and I must have set some of my permissions to tight.

Also I learned that updating my NuGet package: Xamarin.Forms (v.2.3.3.168) solved errors related to:

System.MissingMethodException: Method Android.Support.V4.Widget.DrawerLayout.AddDrawerListener not found.

But that is another issue all together.

Answer 2

Another issue to be aware of is that you need to have Java Development Kit 8 referenced in Xamarin, instead of JDK 7. You can set this is Tools > Options > Xamarin > Android.