Xamarin won't install in current of Visual Studio 2015

Question

I have tried uninstalling Xamarin, and reinstalling Visual Studio 2015, and it keeps failing.

this below

results in this

Is there anywhere I can grab that missing package directly. I have the Visual Studio installer downloading the packages from the internet. If I can install that package manually (aka, an MSI), then I believe it should be ok. Xamarin (as part of Visual Studio) won't install until this ancient SDK installs.

I also tried Xamarins' installer, but it never shows up in Visual Studio 2015, likely because of this dependency failing.

Some other things I have tried :

• Common issues in Visual Studio 2015 setup
• StackOverflow: Install Xamarin on Visual Studio 2015
• Xamarin: Installing Xamarin on Windows
• Uninstalling Xamarin

Answer 1

Actually android sdk is failing to download, maybe because of slow or unstable internet connection or the download path which xamarin is using is available anymore.

Go to- http://www.xamarin.com/download and get a separate xamarin installer for your visual studio and install from it.

If it again don't fails to install android sdk then go to https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html and download sdk separately, remember the sdk's install path, you can configure visual studio later.

Answer 2

try to open the SDK Manger from your PC ( as an administrator ) and install the missing packages