Xamarin linking SDK and UserAssemblies: Error inflating class android.support.v7.widget.FitWindowsFrameLayout

Question

My app is working without linking. It works fine also when I choose Sdk Assemblies only. It works fine in debug mode as well but it start failing if I choose linking SDk and Use

Answer 1

It's stripped by the linker so you can "trick it " and simulate a false usage like this :

static bool falseflag = false;
static LinkerPleaseInclude()
{
    if (falseflag)
    {
        var ignore = new FitWindowsFrameLayout(Application.Context);
    }
}

This is available in the Xamarin documentation too : https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/advanced_topics/linking/