PathTooLongException Xamarin Droid Project

Question

I Created a Xamarin.Forms project with a long path, and while building it I get this error:

\"System.IO.PathTooLongException: The specified path, file nam

Answer 1

Probably the easiest temporary solution is to move your project to a drive's root folder to decrease the length of the path.

Answer 2

Try adding this msbuild property in your project that will shorten the file/folder names on the obj directory

<PropertyGroup>
    <UseShortFileNames>True</UseShortFileNames>
</PropertyGroup>

Or this to change the output folder to a one closer to the C:\

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
    <IntermediateOutputPath>C:\MyFolder\MyProj</IntermediateOutputPath>
</PropertyGroup>

Hope it helps.