BUG- Livesharp causing System.Reflection.AmbiguousMatchException

[EmilAlipiev]

I have 2 dot not core project one references to another and when I install livesharp on both of them, it throws this exception. exactly this one in the reference xamarin/Xamarin.Forms#2632

[ionoy]

Thanks for the feedback! Can you post the exception with the stack trace?

[EmilAlipiev]

somehow this error has gone now but i am getting another error. I have Xamarin.Forms.Init in MainActivity of Android project. why does it complain?

error: Initialization failed
System.InvalidOperationException: You MUST call Xamarin.Forms.Init(); prior to using it.
  at Xamarin.Forms.Device.get_PlatformServices () [0x00007] in D:\a\1\s\Xamarin.Forms.Core\Device.cs:87 
  at Xamarin.Forms.Device.BeginInvokeOnMainThread (System.Action action) [0x00000] in D:\a\1\s\Xamarin.Forms.Core\Device.cs:104 
  at LiveSharp.Support.XamarinForms.XamarinFormsInspector.StartInspector () [0x00001] in <13a2553fe443423c92f1ff1789a644ee>:0 
  at LiveSharp.Runtime.LiveSharpInspectorHandler..ctor (LiveSharp.ServerClient.LiveServerClient client, LiveSharp.Runtime.ILiveSharpInspector inspector) [0x0002e] in <2e10542745d14bb2bb1d7a09cbdec28f>:0 
  at LiveSharp.Runtime.LiveSharpRuntime.StartInspector (System.Type inspectorType) [0x0003b] in <2e10542745d14bb2bb1d7a09cbdec28f>:0 
  at LiveSharp.Runtime.LiveSharpRuntime+<>c__DisplayClass17_0.<Start>b__0 () [0x00067] in <2e10542745d14bb2bb1d7a09cbdec28f>:0 
error: Initialization failed
System.InvalidOperationException: You MUST call Xamarin.Forms.Init(); prior to using it.
  at Xamarin.Forms.Device.get_PlatformServices () [0x00007] in D:\a\1\s\Xamarin.Forms.Core\Device.cs:87 
  at Xamarin.Forms.Device.BeginInvokeOnMainThread (System.Action action) [0x00000] in D:\a\1\s\Xamarin.Forms.Core\Device.cs:104 
  at LiveSharp.Support.XamarinForms.XamarinFormsInspector.StartInspector () [0x00001] in <13a2553fe443423c92f1ff1789a644ee>:0 
  at LiveSharp.Runtime.LiveSharpInspectorHandler..ctor (LiveSharp.ServerClient.LiveServerClient client, LiveSharp.Runtime.ILiveSharpInspector inspector) [0x0002e] in <2e10542745d14bb2bb1d7a09cbdec28f>:0 
  at LiveSharp.Runtime.LiveSharpRuntime.StartInspector (System.Type inspectorType) [0x0003b] in <2e10542745d14bb2bb1d7a09cbdec28f>:0 
  at LiveSharp.Runtime.LiveSharpRuntime+<>c__DisplayClass17_0.<Start>b__0 () [0x00067] in <2e10542745d14bb2bb1d7a09cbdec28f>:0 

[ionoy]

How do you initialize your application? Usually, I see code similar to following:

        protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
        {
            TabLayoutResource = Resource.Layout.Tabbar;
            ToolbarResource = Resource.Layout.Toolbar;

            base.OnCreate(bundle);

            global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(this, bundle);
            LoadApplication(new App());
        }

So Forms.Init(this, bundle); is called before the App constructor. Is there something different in your project?

Thanks!

[EmilAlipiev]

yes this is correct, exactly how i do but I believe problem could be related to that my MainActivity is not set as mainlauncher.

    [Activity(Label = "myApp",
        Icon = "@drawable/icon",
        Theme = "@style/MyTheme",
         MainLauncher = false,
        ConfigurationChanges = ConfigChanges.ScreenSize | ConfigChanges.Orientation, LaunchMode = LaunchMode.SingleTask)]
    public class MainActivity : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FormsAppCompatActivity

i am using splashactivity as mainlauncher and it will call mainactivity as shown below. not sure if that could be the problem.

public class SplashActivity : AppCompatActivity
   {
       protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
       {
           base.OnCreate(bundle);

           Intent intent = new Intent(this, typeof(MainActivity));
           GetIntentActions(intent);

       
           StartActivity(intent);
           Finish();
     
       }

i hope this info helps. otherwise i can try to create a repro later.

[ionoy]

If your offer about a repro still stands, I would appreciate it since I couldn't reproduce it on my machine.