title: Xamarin VS2015 designer not working
body: <p>I am working with xamarin for visual studio 2015. For 2 days now the designer of the layout stopped working. It is very difficult to identify the problem cause i don't remember doing anything specific during these days.</p>
  
  <p>Here is a screenshot of the error message
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/osXZj.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/osXZj.png" alt="Layout error"></a></p>
  
  <p>I have been trying to follow instructions from all over the web, including the xamarin suggestions, without any success.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the detailed text of the exception:</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/android/utils/ILogger
      at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
      at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701)
      at java.lang.Class.privateGetMethodRecursive(Class.java:3048)
      at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:3018)
      at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1784)
      at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.validateMainClass(LauncherHelper.java:544)
      at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:526)
  Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.android.utils.ILogger
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
      at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
      ... 7 more
  Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again
  Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=350m; support was removed in 8.0
  Exception in thread "main" 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What i already did is:
  1. Added the enviromental variable MaxPermSize setting it to different sizes without any success.
  2. Reinstalled Java runtime and Java SDK both for x86 and x64.
  3. I have only in my system JAVA JRE 8 and SDK 1.8.0_102 x64.
  4. Reinstalled the Android SDK tools.</p>
  
  <p>So originally i have the question if there is any workaroung cause i really want to use xamarin but not without the designer?</p>