Xamarin Unable to Deploy

Question

I was successfully using Xamarin Community Studio on OSX. Today, my computer reported that Xamarin automatically updated. Now, every time I try to deploy to an Android emulator I get the following error:

Deployment failed because of an internal error: There is not enough storage space on the device to store package: /data/local/tmp/Mono.Android.Platform.ApiLevel_24.apk.

I get this even when starting a new, blank project. All of this is done through the IDE. I have tried resizing the Android instance to a 4GB drive and 2GB of RAM, same error.

Anyone have ideas?

Answer 1

I checked, doubled checked, and triple checked, but never found the "internal storage" field referred to by Jon Douglas. However, I did find the answer on that screen. I changed the "Target" to "API Level 24" and then it started working. I think somewhere in there an error message got confused (i.e., it didn't allow it to copy Mono.Android.Platform.ApiLevel_24.apk, so Xamarin assumed that the reason was storage, when the real reason was an incompatible API).

Anyway, all seems well with the world now. Thanks for your help!

Answer 2

You need to increase the -partition-size in your AVD:

emulator -partition-size 512 -avd MonoDroid

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/troubleshooting/troubleshooting/#There_is_not_enough_storage_space_on_the_device_to_deploy_the_package

You can read more about this here:

https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds.html

You can simply increase the internal storage setting here: