Ok... I've been working with Xamarin Forms for about 4 months. I started with iOS/PCL in VS2013. I had really no problems building my first mobile app with this configuration. Actually about to submit my first iOS app for external testing at iTunes Connect. Very smooth process.
Now, I activated my Android License and downloaded Xamarin for Windows which installed the Android SDKs. Then I tried simply adding an android project to my existing solution. Couldn't add Xamarin.Forms to the project. Then, I started a brand new solution and selected blank PCL solution for Xamarin. It created 4 projects as expected. Then, when adding Xamarin.Forms to that project I had no problem. However, I can't add the Xamarin.Forms.Maps component. No other components were added other than what the template created. Also, over 101 warnings on the compile of the Android project. I actually got the basic Hello Xamarin Forms starter app to run in the emulator. Can't add component DevExpress Grid which works great in iOS.
Question.... why is this so hard. Is Android supposed to be this difficult to get up and running?