Invalid value 'armeabi' in $(AndroidSupportedAbis). This ABI is no longer supported. Xamarin.Forms - VS2019

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Anas Alweish picture Anas Alweish · May 18, 2019 · Viewed 14.5k times · Source

I have a Mobile App built with Xamarin.Forms
when I am trying to upgrade my project from VS2017 to VS2019

I get this error in Android Project

Invalid value 'armeabi' in $(AndroidSupportedAbis). This ABI is no longer supported. Please update your project properties

I tried to delete bin and obj folders to force the project to rebuild everything, but the error still appears

Can I get an explanation about the error above and how to solve it?

Note: the error doesn't appear in VS2017

Answer

SushiHangover picture SushiHangover · May 18, 2019

armeabi is deprecated and your Android project should target armeabi-v7a and arm64-v8a at a minimum in your release builds destined for the Play Store.

You can directly edit your .csproj and remove the armeabi from within the AndroidSupportedAbis tags:

<AndroidSupportedAbis>armeabi-v7a;arm64-v8a</AndroidSupportedAbis>

Or you can open the Android Build settings in the IDE and it will auto-update it for you:

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