How to update Xamarin for Android in Visual Studio 2015

Question

I recently installed Visual Studio Community 2015 and I am following the MSDN tutorial "Build Cross-Platform Applications with Xamarin . " When it's time to design the look of the application, and I select the Main.axml file in the Resources \ Layout folder, the Android designer fails:

The installed Android SDK is too old. Version 24.3.4 or later is required. Update the latest version.

I searched and found many times that one of the new versions of the Android SDK made the Xamarin Android designer fail. I found version 24.4.1, which says that the problem with the designer is fixed.

How to update this part of Visual Studio (i.e.Xamarin.Android)? Here is a snippet of my installation on Windows 7:

Answer 1

Tools → Options → Xamarin

In the section "iOS Settings" and "Android Settings" there is a link "Check Now" next to the update settings

Answer 2

You might want to update the beta version if you need the latest components -

Go to VS 2015 → Tools → Option → Xamarin → Others → Check now

Answer 3

They moved Check Now to the more difficult to find Tools/Options/Xamarin/Other . We should always be on our guard when dealing with

Other

Answer 4

In the new version of Visual studio this option is available in Other node

Go to VS 2015 → Tools → Options → Xamarin → Other → Check now

Here you can select Alpha, Beta or Stable versions of xamarin for Visual Studio .

Answer 5

Apparently, my problem was solved after installing the SDK Platform for Android 6.0 or API 23. API 24 or higher ie Android 7.0 (Nougat) did not start. If still not resolved, install the SDK Platform for even lower APIs, like 22.21 ... Hope this helps.