1/ I am new for Xamarin and VS Blend.2/ I installed Xamarin, i was checked i already have Visual Studio

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3/ I download Xamarin sample project from link https://github.com/xamarin/recipes

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I tried to open one of android project from these sample but when i choose and open it then it is showing 'unavailable' where project folder. you can see in attached image.

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Currently Microsoft Blend does not support the Xamarin-based XAML format as Blend uses its own internal parser and it does not support 3rd-party XAML variants via plugins.

I assume and hope that with the merger of Xamarin complete, there will be a future release of Blend that does support it...

So like Xamarin users have be doing for the past year+, you need to handwrite your XAML files:

Ref: https://kb.xamarin.com/customer/portal/articles/2026256-why-doesn-t-the-visual-studio-xaml-designer-work-for-xamarin-forms-xaml-files-

You can't open a Xamarin-Project in Blend. It has an integrated Designer for Android and a remote Designer for IOS (You need a MAC Build-Agent for this to work).

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