Xamarin.Android app only finding launcher activity on clean compile

Question

I have an Xamarin.Android with the activity marked as MainLauncher called Login.

When I press F5 for first time the app starts ok in the emulator. Then I st

Answer 1

This issue has been fixed and will be included in Visual Studio 15.5.5 or Visual Studio 15.6 Preview 3.

The respective Xamarin.Android version this fix is included in are Xamarin.Android 8.1.5.0 (Stable) and Xamarin.Android 8.2.0.6 (Preview)

Be on the look-out for this release as it will be available soon!

(If you need a workaround today, please follow the steps here: https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=61073#c40)