Xamarin Sample Application Not Displaying Anything

I meant to try out Xamarin.Android for a project of mine, so I installed Visual Studio 2015 and Xamarin.Android. I then installed the packages for the versions of Android I meant t

Solution 1:

There are several solutions in this thread. Please try:

• Closing Emulator, Cleaning solution then Running solution worked for me. Or
• Clean and Rebuild Or
• Deselecting 'Use Shared Runtime' in Project Properties > Android Options > Packaging properties Or
• Re-installing Xamarin emulator

Solution 2:

While I was dealing with the similar issue (just with the real device instead), I found that my Mono Shared Runtime, installed on my android device, was corrupted or something like that.

Was drilling the web for ages without any positive results about the exact solution that I actually found.

Go to your phone Setiings -> Apps -> Mono Shared Runtime -> Uninstall

With your next build and deploy, it will be reinstalled again and, hopefully, it will solve your problem as it did for me.

Edited: After a while, I found some more reasons which could silently prevent to deploy your app on device:

• lack of space in your SD card
• corrupted installations of your app with names like: yourProjName.yourProjName 0kb size