App crashes after installing a Xamarin-Forms app - c#

I have 3 self-written apps on my phone. 2 written with Xamarin.Android and one written with Xamarin.Forms. But there is a big problem. It always work only 2 or 1 app depending on which of the 3 apps was installed last. If one of the two Xamarin.Android apps was installed last, then both Android apps work. The Forms App, however, crashes immediately. Same the other way around. If the Forms app was installed last, it works fine. The two Android apps crash immediately.
Is there any reason for that? Are the frameworks not compatible?

I had the same problem trying to install the apk from Debug folder.
Steps that worked for me:
- Disable "Use Shared Runtime"
- In Advanced Settings, Select supported architecture
Check the screenshot if not clear

If you are deploying a debug apk into the same device, with different Runtimes, when the apk is installed will remove the previous / override. So, you will need to: disable Shared Runtime, or make sure the dependencies are all the same in all the applications

If you are using visual studio then Check "Application output" with release on device.
In Application Output you can see if any exception is causing problem..

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Getting app to install emulator in a xamarin project without having the source code

I have looked through the Microsoft documentation but everything seems to want you to run everything with the development code. I used a bitbar tutorial to help start my C# xamarinui test framework. I have the emulators working I just want the apk and ios apps to install as the first test. I know how to drag and drop and put the app on the phone manually. I am looking for a way to get the app to install and launch through test code or by some operation. I do not have access to the source.
Only for the Android case, google for the apk, usually they are available on sites like apk pure etc. If the apk has executables for x86 inside you could install in on android simulator using just drag and drop.
For iOS this seems not possible as the installer has to be signed with appropriate profiles that only app developer has in his possession.

Xamarin Won't Build on Physical Devices

I'm building a Xamarin app, and, so far, I've been able to build without issue on the iPhone Simulator, but I haven't been able to get the app to launch successfully on a physical iPhone device. In the past (about a month ago), the app was working fine on the same device. Here's some background on the specifics:
I develop my Xamarin code on my Windows machine, which is linked a remote Mac (hosted by MacStadium, a third-party hosting service).
My test phone is an iPhone 5c running iOS 10.3.3
To deploy to my iPhone, I build my app in Release mode in Visual Studio, upload the code to a third-party app installation service, Installr, which hosts the IPA file and assists with the installation of my app on the physical device. I've never had an issue with Installr and have no reason to believe that this is the source of my problem.
Since the last time the app worked on the physical device, I updated Visual Studio to version 16.3.2 and updated Xamarin. Here's the Xamarin Specs:
Generally, what happens, is that I download and install my app on the iPhone without any issue. However, when I click on the app, the splash screen loads for about 5 seconds, a white screen briefly appears as follow, then the app crashes.
I've seen several related articles on StackOverflow and other sources on the internet, but none of the proposed solutions see to work for me. For example, I've tried adding [assembly: XamlCompilation(XamlCompilationOptions.Compile)]
to App.xaml.cs with no luck.
I've also played around with changing the CSProj file settings to compile for various combinations of ARM64 and ARMv7. Changing this didn't help either. I've tried changing the linker behavior to "Don't Link" from "Link Framework SDKs Only", and I get an error message stating that the native code is too large for 32-bit architectures. I would compile for only 64-architectures to get around this error, but I believe that the iPhone 5c uses a 32-bit architecture.
Here's what my iOS Project's CSProj file looks like currently. I've tried checking just about all of those checkboxes with no luck:
I'm stumped as to what this could be. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. To further complicate things, I haven't been able to get a good log file from the iPhone. Since the Mac is remotely hosted, I can't plug my phone into XCode to pull the logs that way. Does anyone have a reliable solution to get log files another way?
It looks like upgrading solved the problem. Visual Studio was updated to Visual Studio to 16.3.5 from 16.3.2. XCode on my Mac was updated to Version 11.1. After these updates, Visual Studio performed an update while connecting to the Mac remotely.

Cannot install UWP app package in release mode on windows 10 iot core

I have an application that i want publish it using application packages file and install manually i don`t want to use Microsoft Store for publishing my app. I create my application package files as you can see below
After that when I want to install my application package from Windows 10 iot Device Portal I didn`t got any error but when application run it stucks on splash screen page.
Generally, if you encountered an app hung up when running, you can follow the below steps to troubleshoot.
Try to deploy/debug the app from Visual Studio;
Try to deploy/debug with a blank app;
Set break points or trace the event log to check if there is some exception or what code causes the hung up.
When debugging with Visual Studio, checked the Compile with .Net Native tool chain in Debug setting, by default, when the app runs in debug mode, it will not use Compile with .Net Native tool chain. Please see this blog.
If possible, you can share the code of your splash page.

"The app didn't start" after adding Windows Phone 8.1

I am currently two days into this bug and can't seem to find the cause. I relatively recently installed VS2013 Update 2 RC and started building the Windows Phone 8.1 version of my WinRT app. I have been slowly moving files (mostly Converters/basic resources and pages) over to the Shared project and haven't had too many issues with it.
The Windows Phone 8.1 app builds and runs (though, with some issues that I still need to iron out). My WinRT app, which I haven't changed at all (except for some of its dependencies) aside from moving some things to the Shared project, will not start at all. It throws up "The app didn't start".
So far I've tried slowly moving files back out of the shared project and into the main WinRT project, but still to no avail. My hard drive is not encrypted with TrueCrypt.
One other thing to note is that in the same moves toward Windows Phone 8.1, I also changed my Portable Class Library to target both WP8.1 and Xamarin (iOS and Android).
I haven't been able to get any debug results because any time I start it debugging, it fails with "The app didn't start" error. No exceptions are thrown in the output, even when running the Native/Mixed debuggers. Also, no breakpoints get triggered, even in the App constructor.
I have read that this could be caused by permissions issues. I have checked and double checked all permissions in the prescribed places and registry entries and found no deviations.
One other thing I should note is that this seems to only happen with my application. All other apps seem to run fine.
I figured it out! Based on what I read here, the issue was with a file app.config in my project.
From what I've been able to see, app.config seems to be entirely superfluous. I believe it to be a relic from original Windows 8 applications. I haven't had any issue with it up until now, when it seems Nuget changed the contents of it to reflect some updated app packages.
Excluding this file from the project solved the issue.

how to make an executable version of a WPF Kinect Application?

I have made a Kinect Application in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. I need to make an exe of the application which can run on any windows based system. If I need to do that than is there any requirements that the system should fulfil? and If yes, then how do I do that?
I tried to use the exe in application/bin/debug/application.exe by copying it in another folder but it shows an error but if I run the exe from the bin/debug/application.exe it works. Am I missing something here or is it the only way to do that?
"Any Windows based system" isn't going to work. Assuming you're using the Kinect SDK, it will only run on Windows 7 (and supposedly Windows Server 2008). The computer running the application will need either the Kinect Runtime, which only works with the new Kinect for Windows sensor, or the Kinect SDK, which also works with the Kinect for Xbox. Microsoft wants to sell more Kinect for Windows sensors, so they don't allow the runtime to work with the old Xbox Kinects. Makes sense in a way, but man that bugged me when I first found out about it. There's a short post showing how to test for the existence of the Runtime on application load, so you can show an appropriate error message instead of just crashing out.
You need to copy any files that the program relies on, such as DLL files, along with the executable. There's instructions here for how to embed the DLL files into the executable; I've not tried it but it might be worth a shot.
The correct .NET version should be installed when either the Runtime or the SDK is installed; you shouldn't have to worry about this.
#Coeeffect is right, but you can also publish version 1.0.0.0 of your app by going to project -> properties -> publish -> publishing wizard to publish your application to then use on ther computes ect. Hope this helps!
You need to copy all non-standard DLLs that your program uses.
The target computer needs the appropriate version of .Net.

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