Visual studio can't debug Android Xamarin app

Question

I\'ve started with Xamarin and Android using Visual Studio 2013.

When I start debugging the android app, it builds, deploys to device and then debugging in Visual St

Answer 1

This will also happen if you don't have any activity marked as your main launcher activity:

[Activity(
    ...
    MainLauncher = true,
    ...)]
public class MainActivity ...

Easy mistake to make if you're shifting code in from a prior project and the prior project is using a splash activity and your new project is not yet doing so.