Xamarin.Form could not load Xamarin.iOS

Question

I am blocked with a strange error while building the Android project in a Xamarin.Forms solution.

When I build the Android project I get the following error:

Exception while loading assemblies: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: could not load assembly 'Xamarin.iOS, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8404fff9cb79065'

Has anyone encountered a similar issue?

Answer 1

On MacOS, Visual Studio 2017 community I noticed, after updating Xamarin to latest packages most of time rebuild fails with same error, so I clean the solution, exit visual studio, reopen & build the solution ! Hope this helps

Answer 2

Solved. There was a reference to a project that was referencing Xamarin.Ios just removing the reference the project now compiles