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xamarin 5.7 android connection to the layout renderer failed

I've installed Xamarin 5.7 (build 661).

I use Xamarin Android and I've run into a problem when I tried to use the designer in Visual Studio 2013 or Xaramin Studio

Connection to the layout renderer failed. This may be caused by a misconfiguration of Java

I tried to downgrade the tools as mentionned here but this time it did not work

Solution

  • What I had to is to

    • Install Java JDK 1.8. You can find it here
    • Uninstall Java JDK 1.6 and JDK 1.7 from the control panel in windows

    Now, I can use the latest Android SDK tools (24.0.2 at this time) This is where I found the solution