Using Xamarin I can't solve the error when open even the default layout.
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Something weng wrong
The installed Android SDK it to old. Version 25.1.3 or newer is
required. Please update to the latest version.
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As seen in the image below I already installed the latest tools.
Using Java 1.8. Did I miss something?
Thank you very much.
I had a similar problem. Here a solution that worked for me:
1) delete the one package appearing in the screenshot of the Android SDK Manager in the url below. Nota bene: At this stage VS 2015 greyed out the Android SDK manager buttons, even after a restart.
2) download installer_r24.4.1-windows.exe for windows https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html
3) launch the Android SDK Manager outside of VS and install the proposed 19 packages. This time I could go through the installation.
4) Launch VS 2015 and create Xamarin Android project. Launching Main.axml would launch the designer properly on an android project.
More details here
How to resolve : unexpected error occured Initializing Android Designer" in VS 2015 with Xamarin
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I have Visual Studio 2019 installed with Xamarin. I'm trying to get Shell to show up in the project templates. I'm following this post as a guide. But when I install the vsix file, it fails with the error message: Installation of Microsoft.VisualStudio.Android.DeviceManager failed. The extension has a lower version than required by Visual Studio. Please install the extension from Visual Studio Installer instead.
Where in the Visual Studio Installer is the Android Device Manager? I've installed all the Mobile Development tools and all updates....
That post is obsolete - it describes something you needed to do in a Preview version of VS 2019.
In VS Installer, select Workload "Mobile development with .NET".
I was unable to find any Microsoft doc that tells you to simply do that!
I don't recall whether you still need to also do this step:
Setting up the Android SDK for Xamarin.Android.
After installing the Workload mentioned above, restart VS. See if the menu item mentioned below is there. If so, try to make a sample app - maybe this "Android SDK" step is no longer needed - the Workload might set everything up.
Then Android Device Manager will be at menu Tools / Android / Android Device Manager.
Menu location documented here.
I started few days back to learn android programming. I tried to use Eclipse and Android studio but I faced many problem (configuration) so I decided to develop android apps using XAMARIN/VS2015. I installed xamarin (android) but not android sdk manager because I installed it before using android studio. The problem is that I do not know how to link VS2015 to the previous android SDK manager already installed. Can anyone help me??
I know the folder where the sdk is unzipped in. It is even set in VS2015 but I have not idea why it is not working.
The following screenshot shows it clearly:
Thank you
You need to link your sdk, not your adb.exe path.
I have this path for sdk:
C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Android\sdk
You also can see this guide:
https://docs.elementscompiler.com/VisualStudio/Setup/AndroidSDK/
In Visual Studio 2015 with Xamarin I installed android SDK and updated it. Android SDK manager says, that I have tools version 25.2.3:
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But Visual Studio still shows up a message that I must update it:
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Thanks for help.
I've came across the same problem yesterday, to solve this issue, you must download the Android 6.0(API 23). After that the designer should work just fine.
I just downloaded xamarin studio. I get an error message "disconnected from layout renderer please close the file and try again" whenever i open a axml in the layout folder. I can view the source but can't go to the design tab to add controls. Closing the filed does not work.
I'm not sure how to find what version of xamarin.android i'm using but I just downloaded last night. When I go to the SDK manager it tells me my Android SDK Tools are version 23.0.4.
I found this old thread on the same topic. I tried renaming my tools folder and downgrading but that didnt' work either. It told me I need tools of at least version 22.
http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/14344/disconnected-from-layout-renderer-error-after-updating-android-sdk-tools-to-version-22-6
I've tried uninstalling Xamarin Studio and reinstalling and that didn't help. I do have Visual Studio 2013 with update 3 installed too. But then I also tried installing Xamarin Studio on another laptop with Visual Studio 2012 and got the exact same problem.
Note: this error displays in both Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio.
I really hope I can get this resolved as i'm evaluating Xamarin for 2 companies. Any help is greatly appreciated.
-Randy
The solution is here: http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/comment/51784/#Comment_51784
Only this time, you need to downgrade from 23.0.4 to 23.0.2.
Just found this out the hard way.
Cheers
Thank you Balint! You made my weekend!!! Here is a direct link to the tools version that works.
http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/tools_r23.2-windows.zip
I recently had this same issue when trying to open the main.xaml in Xamarin Studio for Mac OS X. Here are the steps I took to resolve the problem:
Open the Android SDK Manager in Xamarin Studio and delete the Android SDK Tools.
Re-download the SDK Tools from [https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html?hl=i]. Revision 23.0.2
Make sure the downloaded SDK is unzipped in the path /Users/username/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx
Then I launched the SDK Manager from the Terminal using cd library/developer/xamarin/android-sdk-macosx/tools ./android
When the SDK launches, make sure the Android SDK Tools is not selected, else it will update it to 23.0.5 which appears to currently be broken.
After the SDK Manager updates and installs all the packages, re-open Xamarin Studio and go to Preferences -> SDK Locations -> Android and chose the path for the Android SDK.
After following these steps I was able to successfully open the main.xaml files for Android on OS X.
I have already installed Android 2.3.3 and also pointed the path to my Android SDK in Preferences.
But I am getting the following error:
An Android SDK is missing. Titanium requires Android platform: 2.3.3 or above.
Can anyone help me?
Error mean you need to install Android 2.3.3 (API 10). It's because Titanium requires API 10 to work with Android.
Try the following
Open Titanium Studio
Click on the dashboard button in your Titanium Studio
A new page will be opened as shown in figure 1
4. Click on Android SDK. Here in my case, I have already configured Android SDK properly. That is why the icon shows green otherwise it will display red just like Tizen SDK.
It will ask you to download the SDK. Please select the required SDKS and download them. You can see the installed SDKs also. However try to select all the SDK which will fix your issue quickly. Note that it will download all the SDKs so it's little time consuming.
Edit : You can also refer Install Android SDK with Titanium and Installing Platform SDKs
Hope this helped you!!