I'm using Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 (includes Xamarin). When I create a Cross Platform project (Blank App (Xamarin.Forms Portable) template) I immediately get a lot of "Download failed" errors from the Droid project...
for example:
Download failed. Please download https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/android_m2repository_r22.zip and put it to the C:\Users\dcumbie\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Android.Support.v4\23.0.1.3 directory.
When I look at the AppData\Local\Xamarin\ folder I see that there are folders, but all have no files in them. This includes the "zips" folder. I've tried deleting all the folders and rebuilding, but this only recreates the folders without files. I have also manually downloaded the zip file from "https://dl-ssl.google.com...", and placed the files in the requested places. But this makes no difference when I rebuild.
I am doing this on my company's network, which does have a proxy for Internet access. I can access the Internet fine through any browser. But I do not know of any proxy setting specific to Visual Studio, Xamarin, or Android that would possibly be connected to this error.
Any ideas how I can resolve this?