Packaged_resources does not exist (after updating Android)
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Hey all 
After updating Android I get an Exception, that tells me
”aapt.exe” exited with code -107341819
”aapt.exe” exited with code -107341819
The file “obj\Debug\android\bin\packaged_resources” does not exist
The first time I got this Exception, I had not deleted anything.
I then ran a clean solution and a rebuild afterwards, but with no success. It throws the same exception.
After that I tried rebooting but with same result 
I then tried to manually clean the solution by deleting Obj and Bin-folders, but it comes with the same exception.
It both occurs under Debug and Release, so it does not have nothing to do, that it is running Debug.
I hope you can help me, as I hoped to run a release in this week.
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Allister
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I was getting that error code (which was a combination of using a Android build version that wasn't compatible with a third party nuget, ZXing in this case), and the fix for me was to downgrade the Android SDK build-tools to less than 24 (24 isn't a preview version now, but looks like its still finicky about things) and to install a beta1 version of ZXing, so those two things allowed me to build and run my android app again (which is part of a xamarin.forms solution).
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I too have the same problem, did you solve it?
Yes, by reinstalling everything that is related to Xamarin
I also installed Xamarin, but I have not solved the problem
Did you try following this guide https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/getting_started/installation/uninstalling_xamarin/
same here. After uninstalling no result.
And of course reinstalled afterwards
yup. i tried
I was getting that error code (which was a combination of using a Android build version that wasn't compatible with a third party nuget, ZXing in this case), and the fix for me was to downgrade the Android SDK build-tools to less than 24 (24 isn't a preview version now, but looks like its still finicky about things) and to install a beta1 version of ZXing, so those two things allowed me to build and run my android app again (which is part of a xamarin.forms solution).