Xamarin - Visual Studio stuck at zipalign.exe

Question

When trying to deploy an app in Android Device, VS is stuck here:

1>C:\\Users\\George\\AppData\\Local\\Android\\android-sdk\\build-tools\\23.0.1\\zipalign

Answer 1

This question may be old but I had this problem right now.
I am using a real device and not an emulator and my solution was to:

1. Restart Visual Studio
2. Clean and rebuild the project
3. Restart the device

Then the deployment worked. I hope this is going to help someone.

Answer 2

I'm using VS Community 2017, fix it by selecting Use shared runtime that it's not selected by default.

Answer 3

None of the solutions present on the web(regedit, clean, uninstall, restart, etc...) solved the issue for me. I ended up reading through xamarin's bugzilla log and found that the solution is to have the emulator running prior to trying to deploy. If you simply build, then deploy and let visualstudio launch the emulator it will hang. However, if you launch the emulator from the Android AVD Manager then deploy via visualstudio, it will run deploy cleanly.

Answer 4

I had the same problem, and after upgrading Android SDK Build-tools from 23.0.1 to a newer version in the Android SDK Manager, the problem was solved.

Answer 5

I came across the same issue in Visual Studio 2015 using any emulator. In my case, it turned out that I had to change a packaging option to get rid of the problem.

1. Go to your project settings.
2. Select Android Options.
3. Choose the tab Packaging.
4. Deselect the Use Fast Deployment option as shown in the screenshot.
5. Hit the F5 key and there you go :-)

The deployment appears to be a touch slower, however, the emulator executes the software much faster. Enjoy!

Answer 6

For those experiencing this on an emulator, if you restart your emulator with the "Wipe User Data" option this issue goes away.