xamarin forms prism images dont display

Question

I'm creating a new "Prism blank app (xamarin.Forms)" project in vs 2017 to develop an android application.

I can't seem to make an image show on the MainView when I set the source to the image name that is the mipmap=hdpi folder.

When I use a regular Xamarin Forms project I have a drawable folder that works fine. I have tried:

<Image Source="checkmate.png"></Image>

and also binding to the view model:

<Image Source="{Binding LogoImage}"></Image>


public string LogoImage
{
    get { return "checkmate.png"; }
    set { LogoIm`enter code here`age = value; }
}

Prism is an MVVM helper and DI container, it is not responsible for images. 99% of your app's problems will not be related to prism at all. — Axemasta

Paul Kertscher Paul Kertscher · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-23T11:37:34

According to this article the Resources/drawable folder should be the default folder for images.

If there is no Resources/drawable folder in your Android project, create one and place your assets there. Also make sure, that the build action of the files you've added is AndroidResource.

xamarin forms prism images dont display

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