what is packaged_resources?

Question

I am new to Xamarin for visual studio , when I tried to build the auto generated app from visual studio 2015 without any editing it just did not build and those errors occurred :

*Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error The file "obj\Debug\android\bin\packaged_resources" does not exist. App1

*Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error "aapt.exe" exited with code -1073741819. App1

I tried many solutions from those who had the same problem but I can't seem to find any solution that actally works for me.

Answer 1

One additional detail that is not mentioned but might be a part of the problem is that the resource files can only contain 'a'-'Z', '0'-'9' and '_' characters. A single resource file can ruin the whole build, which is exactly what happened to me. I suggest to anyone running into this mistake to double check the file names of resources.