Xamarin Forms Cannot run PCL project

Question

Hi I am trying to do the phoneword (Xamarin.Forms) app given on the Xamarin website. However, the project is not building. The error is shown in the screenshot below:

Earlier the error message was to extract contents of m2repository to the path:

C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Xamarin\\Xamarin.Android.Support.Design\\23.0.1.3\\content

Help is really appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You hit the famous SDK corruption, so the manual steps to fix are not easy.

I have my post here,

https://blog.lextudio.com/2016/05/android-support-repository-and-xamarin-android/

You might need to revise the version numbers to match your case.