Xamarin Forms : Error APT0000: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionButton'

Question

I am building a Xamarin forms app for learning and everything is working for iOS etc, Android was working and now, for a reason I cant work out. Something is wrong with the

Answer 1

I hit this when I copied in one XF android project into another. Turns out the styles.xml was looking for assets that hadn't been copied over yet. Make sure you've copied your styles and visual assets such as icons over.

Answer 2

I had corrupt packages in ./local/shared/Xamarin