Android App Compile Not Generating Package Resources

Question

When attempting to compile my Xamarin.Android app I get the compile error:

Error 3 The file \"obj\\Debug\\android\\bin\\packaged_resources\" does no

Answer 1

Got this error in Visual Studio 2017 Xamarin android project on Windows. After lot of experiments with resource's files I found, that filename length and extension of image file in the drawable folder affect the result of compillation!

drawable/abcde.png - compilled ok
drawable/abcdef.png - error, "obj\Debug\android\bin\packaged_resources" does not exist

If rename image to file without .png extension, compilled without errors.

Spended a lot of time and was confused :-/

Answer 2

You will need to grub down by switching on Verbose output. What is stopping the generation of packaged_resources?

In VS2013 choose Tools --> Options --> Build and execute, choose verbosity Diagnostic.

In VS2015, the same option is in Tools --> Options --> Projects and Solutions --> Build and Run.

In my case, it was a hyphen character in the name of the action property of an Intent filter, but choosing verbose output will point you to the line that has the problem.

Answer 3

I had the same problem. To solve I had to remove all nuget packages from droid project, and reinstalled xamarin.forms again (has to be same version used in other projects).

Answer 4

make sure that your resources don't have any special character or start with number