Visual Studio : The Android SDK Directory could not be found. Please set via /p:AndroidSdkDirectory

Question

I have installed Xamarin plugin for Visual Studio 2012.

And when create an Android Project and build the same. I am getting the following error.

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Answer 1

You can solve this by editing the build definition in the VS 2012.

Right click on the Build Definition and Edit Build Definition

Goto Process -> Advanced -> MSBuild Arguments and append the below parameter value to it

/p:AndroidSdkDirectory=C:\android-sdk

it should work.