Upload Fails On Google Play Even After Adding Android:debuggable="false"

I am trying to upload my apk to the google store and it says You uploaded a debuggable APK. For security reasons you need to disable debugging before it can be published in Google

Solution 1:

The problem was that the androidmanifest.xml was showing some windows encoding instaed of and this was not throwing any error in xamarin. i changed it to utf-8 and it got uploaded

Solution 2:

Xamarin Studio doesn't always update well changes in AndroidManifest. I could solve the same issue by manually deleting the Droid/obj/Release/android folder in my project directory, then clean + build + package. The new package was accepted by Google Play.