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Make sure that the proguard file you added is NOT a Unicode text file (U+FEFF byte order mark (BOM)) as proguard will fail…
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Enable diag. level logging for MSBuild and get the full error message.
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Proguard is being replaced by Google’s R8
If you are using the latest version of Xamarin, refer to this blog post as a start:
Detailed info on the various D8/R8 project configurations can be found in the Xamarin.Android repo here: