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Martin Nebeský
Martin Nebeský

Reputation: 41

Smaller apk after upgrade Visual studio

I updated Visual studio 2019 from 16.5.1 to 16.8.3 If I generated APK in older version, the size was 94 MB, now is 55 MB. Why?

The new version causes app crash.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 94

Answers (1)

magicandre1981
magicandre1981

Reputation: 28826

Xamarin.Android now has the entry android:extractNativeLibs="true" set by default, which causes smaller APKs since Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.8.

You can get the opposite behavior with an AndroidManifest.xml such as:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0" package="com.companyname.myapp">
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="23" android:targetSdkVersion="30" />
    <application android:label="myapp" android:extractNativeLibs="false" />
</manifest>

Upvotes: 3

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