Xamarin.Android Buid Error : Expected reference but got (raw string) #000000

Question

_{Monday, October 7, 2019 3:43 PM}

Hello, I got an unpredictable error when i build the android project in xamarin forms. error is looks like,

All replies (10)

_{Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:00 PM}

@DiptejThakkar you can add the color in the colors.xml like following code.

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>

  <item name="statusBarBackground">@color/statusbarcolor</item>
</style>

Then, use it in the item of style.

 <item name="statusBarBackground">@color/statusbarcolor</item>

_{Friday, October 11, 2019 2:04 PM}

@LeonLu Thanks for your reply, I found the solutions related to monoversion conflict. i replace the monoversion81 to monoversion90. then its work perfectly. Thanks once again.

_{Friday, October 11, 2019 2:09 PM}

@DipakPatil You are welcome, please mark your reply as answer, it will help others who have similar issue. But i recommand you to set the color in the colors.xml file, it more compliance with specifications

_{Tuesday, October 22, 2019 1:10 PM}

We are experiencing the same issue but setting the target framework doesn't appear to be helping:

error APT0000: expected reference but got (raw string) #000000. error APT0000: failed linking references.

We've set the target framework to monandroid90 for everything in the packages.config , but no luck.

_{Tuesday, October 22, 2019 1:50 PM}

Make sure you replace all references in BOTH the packages.config and the .csproj then delete Bin, Obj, .VS folders, clean and rebuild.

_{Tuesday, December 3, 2019 2:13 PM}

In your res/values/styles.xml you can add <style name="Widget.Support.CoordinatorLayout" parent="android:Widget"> <item name="statusBarBackground">@null</item> </style>

_{Wednesday, December 18, 2019 1:57 PM}

When installing xamarin.forms 4.4 that error happened in my solution

My solution was: - Migrate packages.config to PackageReference... - Restart VS2019 - Clean solution and rebuild

_{Sunday, January 5, 2020 4:51 PM}

I got this after updating from Xamarin.Forms 4.3 to 4.4 and @rmonfort solution worked for me also.

_{Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:59 PM}

I managed to solve the problem with the suggestion of @rmonfort , Thank you very much

_{Monday, February 3, 2020 5:40 AM}

@rmonfort s answer fixed this for me. Thanks!