Hi everyone,
I’m having a problem compiling any MG Android project after a fresh install of VS 2019 on Windows 7. When I create a brand new Android project and immediately press ‘build’, the compilation process starts but then hangs indefinitely and never finishes.
I’ve tried this both in a default MG Android project and a couple of my own projects I’m trying to update, and the same thing always happens. There’s no error - the build just gets stuck and never goes anywhere. Here’s an excerpt of a detailed build log in Visual Studio:
1>Done executing task "ConvertResourcesCases".
1>Task "Touch"
1> Creating "obj\Debug\100\stamp\_ConvertResourcesCases.stamp" because "AlwaysCreate" was specified.
1>Done executing task "Touch".
1>Done building target "_ConvertResourcesCases" in project "Project1.csproj".
1>Target "_CalculateResourceFileName" in file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Xamarin\Android\Xamarin.Android.Aapt2.targets" from project "C:\Users\George\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\Project1\Project1\Project1.csproj" (target "_CompileResources" depends on it):
1>Done building target "_CalculateResourceFileName" in project "Project1.csproj".
1>Target "_CompileResources" in file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Xamarin\Android\Xamarin.Android.Aapt2.targets" from project "C:\Users\George\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\Project1\Project1\Project1.csproj" (target "_PrepareUpdateAndroidResgen" depends on it):
1>Building target "_CompileResources" completely.
1>Output file "obj\Debug\100\flat\drawable_icon.png.flat" does not exist.
1>Using "Aapt2Compile" task from assembly "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Xamarin\Android\Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks.dll".
1>Task "Aapt2Compile"
1> Executing compile -o C:\Users\George\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\Project1\Project1\obj\Debug\100\flat\ C:\Users\George\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\Project1\Project1\obj\Debug\100\res\drawable\icon.png
1> Executing compile -o C:\Users\George\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\Project1\Project1\obj\Debug\100\flat\ C:\Users\George\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\Project1\Project1\obj\Debug\100\res\values\strings.xml
No clues as to why it just stops here (always on the ‘Aapt2Compile’ step). I should also say that I have Android Studio installed as well - is there any way this could interfere with the Xamarin install and cause problems for the MG build?
Thanks for your help.