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Xamarin Axml, Xml Intellisense Not Working

I started using Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition with Version 15.7.4. and Xamarin Version 4.10.0 and need to work on Xamarin native android application. But Auto fill suggesti

Solution 1:

Being a Xamarin developer for almost two years I have come to terms with the fact that the Xamarin Android intellisense has never worked as it is expected.

It has a lot of bugs and issues (Links below) which have made it a real pain in the neck, But there are workarounds which you have already mentioned above and if those do not work for you trust me nothing will.

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/118384/android-designer-does-not-work-wellhttps://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/125879/designer-not-loading-layout-at-allhttps://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/76851/visual-studio-2015-android-designer-not-workinghttps://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/82082/android-designer-not-working-in-visual-studio-enterprise-2015https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/6258/android-designer-doesnt-work-in-vs-2012https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/99268/xamarin-android-designer-not-working.html

My suggestions:

Android studio provides you with a very strong designer and hence I would simply suggest you use Android studio to write down your XML and then just copy paste it to your Xamarin AXML/XML files and it should work like a charm, Same can be done for any other time of files such as strings or styles XML.

For changing the visual studio shortcuts you can simply check the following guide

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