Java.exe Exited With Code 2 In Android App Built In Vs 2015

I have built an android app using xamarin in VS2015. I was able to release first version of app on google play service. The other day, I tried to fix the problems and modified som

Solution 1:

Finally I got answer after 48 hours of struggle. Simply what I did was change the package name from com.myexample.droid to com.myexample.mainapplication in AndroidMainfeast.Xml File at the line<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.myexample.mainapplication" android:versionName="1.0" android:installLocation="auto" android:versionCode="9">, that did trick to me. Good luck to every one. To be clear please have a look this link "trouble writing output: Too many field references: 70185; max is 65536. You may try using --multi-dex option." when building Android project. and read this information

1. Do away with the need for library projects. Package everything into one monolithic structure.
2. Split the project files into multiple dex files.

   1 goes against fundamental software principles of software development – code needs to be developed as re-usable libraries.

2 is a good long-term solution but is more complex.

The solution: A reasonable medium term solution emerged after understanding more closely. The significance of Package name within the manifest tag in the AndroidManifest.xml file is that it is used as a fully qualifying name to identify Android resources. It does not have anything to do with the package name for the java classes themselves.

I followed the same process and changed it and got successful build neither enabling MultiDex nor doing ProGuard. Remember my MaxHeapSize is 1G.

Solution 2:

It worked for me after I updated the Google Services packages (nuget).

Solution 3:

For me, changing false from True to false solved the issue

Solution 4:

For me, changing false inside android.csproj from True to false solved the issue