Why don't Xamarin.Forms apps work on Chromebooks?

Issue

I published a Xamarin Forms app to the Play Store a while back. It runs on Android, iOS, and UWP just fine. I see that Chromebooks Chrome OS claims to run Android apps through the store, but when locating my app it says its not compatible. I've looked everywhere and can't seem to find an exact reason. Does anyone know?

Solution

I'm also running in to this issue, try this article here:

https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/

which mentions updating your Android Manifest xml with the following:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      ... >
<!-- Some Chromebooks don't support touch. Although not essential,
     it's a good idea to explicitly include this declaration. -->
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.touchscreen"
              android:required="false" />

Answered By - Neil Schurrer