Problem with the Build Solution

[ergodaveh]

I have recently downloaded VS 2017 Community with the Xamarin SDK etc.. on my Windows 10 1703
Attempted to run the Sports sample application.
Cloned today's Github code
Opened Sport.Mobile Solution in VS'17
Clicked 'Build Solution' and it fails with errors which include this:

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Widget.Button.Borderless.Colored'. Sport.Mobile.Droid C:\Xamarin\Testing\Sport\Sport.Mobile.Droid\obj\Debug_library_projects_\Xamarin.Android.Support.v7.AppCompat\library_project_imports\res\values-v24\values-v24.xml 2

Thought perhaps the solution required some updates
Opened Manage NuGet for Solution and noticed 21 Updates
Started the update process.. and received this error message

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error Unable to find a version of 'Xamarin.Android.Support.Design' that is compatible with 'Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4.247 constraint: Xamarin.Android.Support.Design (= 23.3.0)'. 0

Oh well.

[ddisqq]

I was able to resolve this by adding additional versions of the Android SDK, reverting to a clean git, updating all packages, and cleanly building. I then ran into a deployment issue whereby if I let visualstudio launch the emulator the deployment would hang. I resolved this by manually launching the emulator from the Android AVD Manager and then running from visualstudio.