Reputation: 435

xamarin forms previewer is showing a MockView after rendering

I'm not be able to see my design screen in the xamarin froms previewer. It is only showing a MockView with a orange screen with black text after rendering.

I don't get any errors about it?

64 bit Java 8.0_121
Visual Studio 2013
Xamarin Stable Updates (4.3.0.789)

Upvotes: 11

Answers (8)

Ольга

Reputation: 1

2020 Answer 2.

Update Visual Studio.

I had the same problem and I have updated the Visual Studio and it helped me. The problem was solved.

Found this at developercommunity.visualstudio.com:

a fix for this issue has been released. Install the most recent release from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads

Upvotes: -1

joyshinde

Reputation: 23

Move your viewmodel binding from the xaml file to the code behind of the XAML file. This should help get back the layout in previewer.

Upvotes: 2

Edgaras

Reputation: 527

2020 Answer:

Answering as this keeps coming up in 2020 when searching for "xamarin android mock view"

It was a bug introduced in Xamarin Forms, see an ongoing issue here:

https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/10224

This was possibly (not confirmed) introduced in android X project update.

Upvotes: 1

user6712623

Reputation: 1

I resolved the same issue by using older version of EF v2.2.6, and it works just fine!

Upvotes: 0

Junaid Pathan

Reputation: 4336

Clean the Solution and Build it. This helped me.

If it does not work, Restart Visual Studio and then Clean -> Build Solution.

For Clean-Build Solution on Menubar Go to Build -> Clean Solution. After that Go to Build -> Build Solution.

Remember that doing Clean-Build only to your specific Android, iOS or UWP project might not work. You need to clean and build the entire solution that contains Android, iOS and UWP projects.

Upvotes: 1