I have installed xamarin in VS2015 and VS2017 both.I am facing some package issues in VS2015 and in VS2017 I am getting renderer problem.
In VS2017, I am facing problems while viewing activity_main.xml
file as
Connection to layout renderer failed. This may be caused due to misconfiguration of java.
Details are as follow:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(DualStackPlainSocketImpl.java:79)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:172)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:538)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:434)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:211)
at mono.android.HostProcessConnection.Connect(HostProcessConnection.java:23)
at mono.android.AndroidDesignerHost.run(AndroidDesignerHost.java:58)
at mono.android.AndroidDesignerHost.main(AndroidDesignerHost.java:47)
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