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Knox Cameron
Knox Cameron

Reputation: 1

Xamarin forms app for Android crashes with Dotfuscator community edition enabled

My Xamarin Forms app crashes on startup in release mode with Dotfuscator Community Edition enabled but works fine in debug mode or release mode with Dotfuscator disabled.

From the documentation, I can see that I might need renaming exclusions but it doesn't give any information about how to identify exclusions I might need. I tried excluding the namespaces for all modules that use reflection but that didn't help.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do next?

Update:

The application crashes before displaying the splash screen. Following SushiHangover's suggestion, I used the Device Log option in Visual Studio to capture the log while I launched the app.

There are various errors and warnings in the system log, but the first error seems to be this:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.scenesteeler/crc64cc08be371a3c8589.MainActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #23 in com.scenesteeler:layout/abc_screen_simple_overlay_action_mode: Binary XML file line #23 in com.scenesteeler:layout/abc_screen_simple_overlay_action_mode: Error inflating class androidx.appcompat.widget.FitWindowsFrameLayout 
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3807)
at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:85)
at ... (removed the rest of the error stack report)

It seems to me that the application crashes before getting to any of my code. It looks like running Dotfuscator has somehow corrupted the package.

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