Invalid value 'armeabi' in $(AndroidSupportedAbis). This ABI is no longer supported. Xamarin.Forms - VS2019

Question

I have a Mobile App built with Xamarin.Forms
when I am trying to upgrade my project from VS2017 to VS2019

I get this error in Android Project

Answer 1

armeabi is deprecated and your Android project should target armeabi-v7a and arm64-v8a at a minimum in your release builds destined for the Play Store.

You can directly edit your .csproj and remove the armeabi from within the AndroidSupportedAbis tags:

<AndroidSupportedAbis>armeabi-v7a;arm64-v8a</AndroidSupportedAbis>

Or you can open the Android Build settings in the IDE and it will auto-update it for you:

• Targeting 64 bit architectures on Xamarin Android

Answer 2

It can be adjusted in 3 steps.

Step 1 - Right-click on Android Project and Click Properties:

Step 2 to 4:

Step 5 - Uncheck armeabi:

Answer 3

In Visual Studio, right-click on your project under the Solution Explorer and select Properties. Under the Android Options page check the Packaging properties section and verify that Use Shared Runtime is disabled (turning this off allows you to explicitly select which ABIs to support). Click the Advanced button and, under Supported architectures, check the architectures that you want to support: tip: if you are unaware of arm architectures checking all will remove errors