Failed to load Android Project in Xamarin Forms application using VS 2017

Question

When I was trying to debug a Xamarin Forms application on my Android phone, my laptop shut down twice. Now whenever I launch Visual Studio, the Android project will not load.

I tried cleaning and reloading the project, but that doesn't work. Restarting Visual Studio doesn't work either.

When I tried reloading the Android project, I got the error "The project file could not be loaded. Root element is missing."

Answer 1

I had the same problem. The solution I found was deleting the .Droid.csproj.user file which was corrupted.

https://dev.to/codeprototype/xamarin-form-application-failed-to-load-android-project-root-element-missing--27o0