Right way to get Xamarin Forms Previewer working in Visual Studio?

Question

I'm still getting the gray box with XFPageRendererView text slugged in whenever I try and use the Xamarin Forms Previewer.

I'm on the latest stable build of Xamarin and using latest updated Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise.

When I check Xamarin bug report there's an old bug about this from last year marked as closed but it's still "open" for me.

Hoping it goes without saying that I know I don't "need" the previewer. But for basic layout and sanity check it would be so much quicker.

Thanks.

Answer 1

keep up to date JDK version

Check out JDK current version. Tools -> Options -> Xamarin -> Java Development Kit

Install or Update the JDK

Restart Vs studio 2017