The “LinkAssemblies” task failed unexpectedly

Question

When we are trying to build a xamarin forms project in release mode, we are getting the error:

C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MSBuild\\Xamarin\\Android\\Xamarin.An         


        

Answer 1

Apparently, this is a known issue: Xamarin Forms needs the TargetAndroidVersion to be 21. (In the config GUI, this is entitled "Compile using Android version:")