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Xamarin Forms 3.6 issue

See original GitHub issue

Description

Can not build anymore on Bitrise with Xamarin Forms 3.6

I see XF 3.6 has a breaking change related to this PR, and there’s been some previous discussion. https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/pull/5398 “[Android] Remove changes to IVisualElementRenderer so it remains backwards compatible”

Any guidance on this? Thanks.

Steps to Reproduce

Build failure when updating to XF 3.6 from 3.5

Expected Behavior

Build to pass

Actual Behavior

Build faiils

Basic Information

Version with issue: latest stable and also latest pre release are both not working
Last known good version: latest stable with XF 3.5
Platform: Android

Reproduction Link / Code

/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018: The "LinkAssemblies" task failed unexpectedly. [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018: Mono.Linker.MarkException: Error processing method: 'System.Void FFImageLoading.Forms.Platform.CachedImageFastRenderer::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.IVisualElementRenderer.add_LayoutChange(System.EventHandler`1<Android.Views.View/LayoutChangeEventArgs>)' in assembly: 'FFImageLoading.Forms.Platform.dll' ---> Mono.Cecil.ResolutionException: Failed to resolve System.Void Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.IVisualElementRenderer::add_LayoutChange(System.EventHandler`1<Android.Views.View/LayoutChangeEventArgs>) [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Mono.Linker.Steps.MarkStep.HandleUnresolvedMethod (Mono.Cecil.MethodReference reference) [0x00013] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Mono.Linker.Steps.MarkStep.MarkMethod (Mono.Cecil.MethodReference reference) [0x0004a] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Mono.Linker.Steps.MarkStep.ProcessMethod (Mono.Cecil.MethodDefinition method) [0x000d3] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Mono.Linker.Steps.MarkStep.ProcessQueue () [0x0001b] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:    --- End of inner exception stack trace --- [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Mono.Linker.Steps.MarkStep.ProcessQueue () [0x00047] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Mono.Linker.Steps.MarkStep.ProcessPrimaryQueue () [0x0000a] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Mono.Linker.Steps.MarkStep.Process () [0x00102] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Mono.Linker.Steps.MarkStep.Process (Mono.Linker.LinkContext context) [0x0000d] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at MonoDroid.Tuner.MonoDroidMarkStep.Process (Mono.Linker.LinkContext context) [0x0000b] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Mono.Linker.Pipeline.Process (Mono.Linker.LinkContext context) [0x0001c] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at MonoDroid.Tuner.Linker.Run (Mono.Linker.Pipeline pipeline, Mono.Linker.LinkContext context) [0x00000] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at MonoDroid.Tuner.Linker.Process (MonoDroid.Tuner.LinkerOptions options, Mono.Linker.ILogger logger, Mono.Linker.LinkContext& context) [0x00071] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Xamarin.Android.Tasks.LinkAssemblies.Execute (Java.Interop.Tools.Cecil.DirectoryAssemblyResolver res) [0x002d4] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Xamarin.Android.Tasks.LinkAssemblies.Execute () [0x0021f] in <78f051a6e2064f849cc3ee585300af39>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute () [0x00029] in <7b80049ba212460da3a78bdfcc799ef4>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/xbuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2129,5): error MSB4018:   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.ExecuteInstantiatedTask (Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost taskExecutionHost, Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.Logging.TaskLoggingContext taskLoggingContext, Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskHost taskHost, Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ItemBucket bucket, Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask) [0x001f6] in <7b80049ba212460da3a78bdfcc799ef4>:0  [/Users/vagrant/git/src/MyApp.Android/MyApp.Android.csproj]