Xamarin - This release is not compliant with the Google Play 64-bit requirement

Question

I archived and deployed my apk in Visual Studio to the Google play store but it wouldn\'t let me continue with Beta rollout and the only message on the beta rollout page was

Answer 1

Easiest Fix:

Pay attention to the following screen because you may be looking for checkboxes but you won't see them, at least not until you click the last drop-down.

1. Make sure you've changed your solution to "Release"
2. Right-click on Android project
3. Click "Properties"
4. Choose "Android Options" on the left
5. At the bottom of the page click "Advanced"
6. Click the dropdown under "Supported Architectures"
7. Check armeabi-v7a and arm64-v8a

Alternate (not suggested) Fix:

To fix the error I unloaded my Android project and edited the csproj file.

I changed my release config from this:

    false
    pdbonly
    true
    bin\Release
    prompt
    4
    true
    false
    true
  

to this:

    false
    pdbonly
    true
    bin\Release
    prompt
    4
    true
    armeabi-v7a;arm64-v8a
    false
    true
    false
  

Finally

then after rebuild and re-upload I no longer get the error but I also realized I still couldn't finish the Beta deployment. Come to find out it was because I had other items on the left side of the page (grey checkmarks) that hadn't been completed.

So in the end, maybe I could have ignored the warning but at least I resolved the issue anyway.