Xamarin release build error: obj\Release\android\AndroidManifest.xml(0,0): Error: Error parsing XML: unknown encoding
ERROR: \Release\android\AndroidManifest.xml(0,0): Error: Error parsing XML: unknown encoding ( ) CAUSE: Android Application Version Name is not in right format (encoding="utf-8") , so it is using a default with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?> FIX: In the project options set android application - versionName to 3 digit version like "1.0.0", not "1" or "1.0" Ex: android:versionName="1.0.0" After this change the code will compile and you can see this following line in the obj\Release\android\AndroidManifest.xml(0,0) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>