Unable to resolve interface type Android - after upgrading

Question

Hi I have just upgraded Visual Studio for Mac and I am now getting an error when trying to build the Android project.

It always seems to be Android that has these problems......

....D:\a\1\s\Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android\Renderers\ShellItemRenderer.cs(0,0): Error XA4204: Unable to resolve interface type 'Google.Android.Material.Navigation.NavigationBarView/IOnItemSelectedListener'. Are you missing an assembly reference? (XA4204) (Android)

....D:\a\1\s\Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android\AppCompat\TabbedPageRenderer.cs(0,0): Error XA4204: Unable to resolve interface type 'Google.Android.Material.Navigation.NavigationBarView/IOnItemSelectedListener'. Are you missing an assembly reference? (XA4204) (Android)

I've got Xamarin.Forms 5.0.0.2244 package installed - please let me know if you need any other info to help fix this.

Here is my Visual Studio information:

Visual Studio Community 2019 for Mac
Version 8.10.14 (build 17)
GTK+ 2.24.23 (Raleigh theme)
Xamarin.Mac 6.18.0.23 (d16-6 / 088c73638)

Package version: 612000140

Mono Framework MDK
Runtime:
Mono 6.12.0.140 (2020-02/51d876a041e) (64-bit)
Package version: 612000140

Roslyn (Language Service)
3.10.0-4.21269.26+029847714208ebe49668667c60ea5b0a294e0fcb

NuGet
Version: 5.9.0.7134

.NET Core SDK
SDK: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/5.0.403/Sdks
SDK Versions:
5.0.403
5.0.202
5.0.201
5.0.103
5.0.102
5.0.101
3.1.415
3.1.408
3.1.407
3.1.406
3.1.405
3.1.404
3.1.403
3.1.302
3.1.301
3.1.300
3.1.200
3.1.102
3.1.101
3.1.100
3.0.101
2.1.701
2.1.505
2.1.503
2.1.4
2.0.0
1.0.0-preview2-003121
MSBuild SDKs: /Applications/Visual Studio.app/Contents/Resources/lib/monodevelop/bin/MSBuild/Current/bin/Sdks

.NET Core Runtime
Runtime: /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet
Runtime Versions:
5.0.12
5.0.5
5.0.4
5.0.3
5.0.2
5.0.1
3.1.21
3.1.14
3.1.13
3.1.12
3.1.11
3.1.10
3.1.9
3.1.6
3.1.5
3.1.4
3.1.2
3.1.1
3.1.0
3.0.1
2.1.23
2.1.20
2.1.19
2.1.18
2.1.17
2.1.16
2.1.15
2.1.14
2.1.12
2.1.9
2.1.7
2.0.5
2.0.0
1.0.0

.NET Core 3.1 SDK
SDK: 3.1.415

Xamarin.Profiler
Version: 1.6.13.11
Location: /Applications/Xamarin Profiler.app/Contents/MacOS/Xamarin Profiler

Updater
Version: 11

Xamarin.Android
Version: 12.0.0.3 (Visual Studio Community)
Commit: xamarin-android/d16-11/f0e3c2d
Android SDK: /Users/ssb/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx
Supported Android versions:
6.0 (API level 23)
7.1 (API level 25)
8.0 (API level 26)
8.1 (API level 27)

SDK Tools Version: 26.1.1
SDK Platform Tools Version: 30.0.2
SDK Build Tools Version: 29.0.3

Build Information:
Mono: c633fe9
Java.Interop: xamarin/java.interop/d16-11@476bb5b
ProGuard: Guardsquare/proguard/v7.0.1@912d149
SQLite: xamarin/sqlite/3.35.4@85460d3
Xamarin.Android Tools: xamarin/xamarin-android-tools/d16-11@87af37b

Eclipse Temurin JDK
Java SDK: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/temurin-8.jdk/Contents/Home
1.8.0.302
Android Designer EPL code available here:
https://github.com/xamarin/AndroidDesigner.EPL

Android SDK Manager
Version: 16.10.0.13
Hash: 1b81df5
Branch: remotes/origin/d16-10
Build date: 2021-11-12 01:17:32 UTC

Android Device Manager
Version: 16.10.0.15
Hash: 89dcc0b
Branch: remotes/origin/d16-10
Build date: 2021-11-12 01:17:52 UTC

Xamarin Designer
Version: 16.11.0.39
Hash: cd672761d
Branch: remotes/origin/d16-11
Build date: 2021-10-06 21:09:18 UTC

Apple Developer Tools
Xcode 13.1 (19466)
Build 13A1030d

Xamarin.Mac
Xamarin.Mac not installed. Can't find /Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.Mac.framework/Versions/Current/Version.

Xamarin.iOS
Version: 15.2.0.17 (Visual Studio Community)
Hash: 738fde344
Branch: xcode13.1
Build date: 2021-11-09 02:45:16-0500

Build Information
Release ID: 810140017
Git revision: 6f93cf55df3b7747288286e2006057c7f088b838
Build date: 2021-11-12 09:50:18-05
Build branch: release-8.10

Operating System
Mac OS X 11.6.1
Darwin 20.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.6.0
Tue Oct 12 18:33:42 PDT 2021
root:xnu-7195.141.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Answer 1

Hello,​

Welcome to our Microsoft Q&A platform!

Error XA4204: Unable to resolve interface type 'Google.Android.Material.Navigation.NavigationBarView/IOnItemSelectedListener'. Are you missing an assembly reference? (XA4204) (Android)

Xamarin.Forms 5.0.0.2244 requires the version of Xamarin.Google.Android.Material nuget to be '>= 1.4.0.2 && < 1.5.0', please install or update the package on the Android project.

Best Regards,

Jarvan Zhang

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