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trampster
trampster

Reputation: 8898

Xamarin .net standard effect on APK size

When you use a .net standard lib from the full .net framework you end up having to include/deploy .net standard versions of all the System.* assemblies the .net standard library uses.

Now that Xamarin supports .net standard and microsoft is recommending people use .net standard rather than PCL we will soon need to switch (library developers are abandoning PCL support).

My question is does using a .net standard library in a Xamarin for Android project mean that multiple system assemblies will be deployed (the .net standard version and the mono version)?

Xamarin apps are already much bigger than native and having to include duplicates of all the system assemblies we need could be a deal breaker going forward.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 202

Answers (1)

woelliJ
woelliJ

Reputation: 1504

The .NET Standard(s) define the API surface of each version. The implementation of the API surface lies with the platform.

In the case of Xamarin the surface is implemented in the Mono framework which is deployed with every app. (And has been before)

If you reference nothing but the NETStandard Library the final .apk file will not increase.

Additional NuGet packages might bring in extra NetStandard specific dependencies (which could previously have been handled by the .net / mono framework itself)

Upvotes: 1

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