“java.exe” exited with code 2 Xamarin.Android project

Question

so I have my Xamarin.Android project which contains several libraries. When I try to build I receive an error which says \"java.exe\" exited with code 2.

After some

Answer 1

In my case this was link to the "Sign the .APK file using the following keystore details" option as Hein Andre Grønnestad mentioned. The location was not correct.

I wanted to put a path that could work for everyone at work so I used $HOME/Library/... instead of /Users/Me/Library/...

The problem is $HOME doesn't mean anything special for java so the keystore file could not be found.

Solution: use relative path or absolute path without $HOME variable or ~