Perhaps it's just me but I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time chasing down and fixing build issues in my Xamarin projects. A project will build one day and then the next some weird error message will pop up and I spend ages trawling the Internet to find out how to fix it.
Is the answer to minimise the number of Nuget packages as it does seem related to any update either of android or a package? The latest is a weird "Xamarin.Forms targets have been imported multiple times." error after I updated the xamarin forms nuget package as part of updating my project. The suggestions always seem to include delete all bin/obj files, restart Visual studio and hope for the best. I am now having to keep a backup of my Android project before each Nuget package update (I have the iOS version working but am just working on the Android version) as I have had the build fail 6 times so far today meaning I have had to revert to an earlier version, clean, delete folders etc. It's getting very frustrating working with Xamarin these days - I'm sorry but it is flaky to say the least.
I'd welcome any suggestions on best practices to maybe reduce the issues but my projects are pretty straight forward and I don't think I am doing anything odd...