Xamarin.Forms Previewer - An android application project must reference a project containing this xaml file in order to render in the previewer

Question

I\'m getting the following error when trying to preview XAML documents via the Xamarin.Forms Previewer while in Visual Studio.

An Android Application proj

Answer 1

This problem can occur for a number of issues. Main problem is that for some reason Android's project can't build or be run inside Xamarin.

For me, the issue was that the latest JDK was not installed. My JRE was, but not JDK. Once I reinstalled JDK and restarted Visual Studio. All was well.