Xamarin Build Failure with CocosSharp Portable Game Template

Question

So I'm not really sure where to go on this one. I resolved all the dependency issues I had when I loaded the CocosSharp Portable template but the Android Project in the solution just refuses to build.

C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Preview\\MSBuild\\Xamarin\\Android\\Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2303,3): error XA4209: Failed to create JavaTypeInfo for class: Android.Support.V4.View.Accessibility.AccessibilityManagerCompat/IAccessibilityStateChangeListenerImplementor due to System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\\Users\\Anthony\\Source\\Repos\\CocosSharp Test Game Portable\\CocosSharp Test Game Portable\\CocosSharp Test Game Portable.Droid\\obj\\Debug\\81\\android\\src\\mono\\android\\support\\v4\\view\\accessibility\\AccessibilityManagerCompat_AccessibilityStateChangeListenerImplementor.java'.

I've seen a number of other questions that include a null reference exception when attempting to build this but not one that has could not find part of path.

What I've tried:

• Clean and rebuild the entire solution
• Clean and rebuild just the android project
• Manually clean and build each individual project
• Manually delete each project bin and obj folder and rebuild solution
• Generating an android manifest in the android project properties page
• Adding the BIND_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICE permission in the android manifest

Answer 1

I had the same issue. The path is too long. Too solve this issue I changed the location of my solution folder to a location with a shorter path. That's it. Close the solution, move the folder and reopen the solution.