diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/MSBuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Resource.Designer.targets b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/MSBuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Resource.Designer.targets
index 76352cda754..7c6ae426b60 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/MSBuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Resource.Designer.targets
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/MSBuild/Xamarin/Android/Xamarin.Android.Resource.Designer.targets
@@ -82,10 +82,14 @@ Copyright (C) 2016 Xamarin. All rights reserved.
     Inputs="@(_AndroidResourceDest);@(LibraryResourceDirectories->'%(StampFile)')"
     Outputs="$(_GenerateResourceCaseMapFile)"
   >
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <!-- Only use the aar files if we have not extracted the data -->
+    <_LocalAarFiles Include="@(AndroidAarLibrary)" Condition=" '@(LibraryResourceDirectories->Count())' == '0' " />
+  </ItemGroup>
   <!-- Generate a ResourceMap file for the project and its resources -->
   <GenerateResourceCaseMap
       AdditionalResourceDirectories="@(LibraryResourceDirectories)"
-      AarLibraries="@(AndroidAarLibrary)"
+      AarLibraries="@(_LocalAarFiles)"
       OutputFile="$(_GenerateResourceCaseMapFile)"
       ProjectDir="$(ProjectDir)"
       ResourceDirectory="$(MonoAndroidResDirIntermediate)"
diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/GenerateResourceCaseMap.cs b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/GenerateResourceCaseMap.cs
index 291435a0562..cc64c46bb75 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/GenerateResourceCaseMap.cs
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/GenerateResourceCaseMap.cs
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ public override bool RunTask ()
 							continue;
 						if (entry.FullName != resmap)
 							continue;
+						Log.LogDebugMessage ($"Found: {entry.FullName}");
 						using var ms = new MemoryStream();
 						entry.Extract (ms);
 						ms.Position = 0;
@@ -94,6 +95,8 @@ public override bool RunTask ()
 							string [] tok = line.Split (';');
 							AddRename (tok [1].Replace ('/', Path.DirectorySeparatorChar), tok [0].Replace ('/', Path.DirectorySeparatorChar));
 						}
+						// no need to read the rest of the files we found the one we want
+						break;
 					}
 				}
 			}
diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/FileResourceParser.cs b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/FileResourceParser.cs
index 29e5b79a62f..05ba3545481 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/FileResourceParser.cs
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/FileResourceParser.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 using System;
 using System.CodeDom;
+using System.Collections.Concurrent;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
@@ -332,8 +333,8 @@ void ProcessStyleable (XmlReader reader, Dictionary<string, ICollection<R>> reso
 						fields.Add (r);
 					}
 				}
-				if (field.Type != RType.Array)
-					return;
+				//if (field.Type != RType.Array)
+				//	return;
 				arrayMapping.Add (field, fields.ToArray ());
 
 				field.Ids = new int [attribs.Count];