Visual Studio for Mac can't deploy to compatible android emulator

Question

I have a Xamarin.Forms project in Visual Studio for Mac. When I try to build the Android project, I get the following error message.

"You are deploying an app supporting armeabi,armeabi-v7a,x86 ABIs to an incompatible device of ABI armeabi,armeabi-v7a,x86. You should either create an emulator matching one of your app's ABIs or add armeabi,armeabi-v7a,x86 to the list of ABIs your app builds for."

This message claims the mobile app supports armeabi,armeabi-v7a,x86. The message also claims that the device ABI is armeabi,armeabi-v7a,x86.

These are the same. How can they be unsupported, since they are the same?

I am not able to deploy to any emulator configuration.

I have seen some apparently related ABI questions, but none of them are related to Xamarin. Since this is all happening within the context of Xamarin and Visual Studio for Mac, any solution needs to be specific to that.

Answer 1

I was able to solve this by reading this MS documentation.

I had to double click on the android project to open the properties, click android build, and select all architectures listed under the advanced tab. As far as I can tell this has no ramifications on the build other than it works now.