NETSDK1178 android workload missing about xamarin-android

[jpobst]

I think .NET Android will be supported on linux-arm64 in .NET 9, but isn't supported on .NET 8:
#8500

You could try the .NET 9 preview and see if that works.

[jonathanpeppers]

Actually we have this change in the latest service release: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/releases/tag/34.0.79

Does dotnet workload install android --verbosity diag show the version of the android workload? 34.0.79 should have #8500 in it.

[rene-descartes2021]

Oh wow, lucky me, I had no idea this was a new feature. I'm fine waiting a bit.

Does dotnet workload install android --verbosity diag show the version of the android workload? 34.0.79 should have #8500 in it.

--verbosity diag doesn't print anything additional in my case. No other parameter or environmental variable I tried changed anything. So I started searching the files/manifests.

I noticed indication of the prior version being in the filesystem, and looking at 34.0.43 files I see it doesn't have linux-arm64 while 34.0.79 does.

~/.dotnet/sdk-manifests/8.0.100/microsoft.net.sdk.android$ ls
34.0.43  34.0.79

So I grep'd around for 34.0.43 and found this "baseline" manifest:

~/.dotnet/sdk-manifests/8.0.100/workloadsets/8.0.201-baseline.24114.5$ head baseline.workloadset.json
{
"Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Android": "34.0.43/8.0.100",
"Microsoft.NET.Sdk.iOS": "17.0.8478/8.0.100",
"Microsoft.NET.Sdk.MacCatalyst": "17.0.8478/8.0.100",
"Microsoft.NET.Sdk.macOS": "14.0.8478/8.0.100",
"Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Maui": "8.0.3/8.0.100",
"Microsoft.NET.Sdk.tvOS": "17.0.8478/8.0.100",
"Microsoft.NET.Workload.Mono.ToolChain.Current": "8.0.2/8.0.100",

So, maybe that is where the problem area is, that it's looking at the available architectures in the baseline version and not the most recent available?

Well, I'm fine waiting for the baseline to advance to 34.0.79, so I'll close this issue and will reopen if there is still problem then. Thank you!

[jonathanpeppers]

It seems like if you did dotnet workload update --verbosity diag, it should update the contents of this file:

dotnet/sdk-manifests/microsoft.net.sdk.android/8.0.100/WorkloadManifest.json

And this file should change to 34.0.79, or the latest version. Does it not?

[rene-descartes2021]

dotnet/sdk-manifests/microsoft.net.sdk.android/8.0.100/WorkloadManifest.json

And this file should change to 34.0.79, or the latest version. Does it not?

I don't see that particular path, it's different on my system:

$ ls -l ~/.dotnet/sdk-manifests/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x. 16 user users 3452 Feb 14 18:25 8.0.100

Here are a few similar paths I see.

WorkloadManifest.json under sdk-advertising:

$ head -n 20 ~/.dotnet/sdk-advertising/8.0.200/microsoft.net.sdk.android/WorkloadManifest.json
{
  "version": "34.0.79",
  "workloads": {
    "android": {
      "description": ".NET SDK Workload for building Android applications.",
      "packs": [
        "Microsoft.Android.Sdk.net8",
        "Microsoft.Android.Sdk.net7",
        "Microsoft.Android.Ref.34",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-arm",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-arm64",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-x86",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-x64",
        "Microsoft.Android.Templates"
      ],
      "platforms": [ "win-x64", "win-arm64", "linux-x64", "linux-arm64", "osx-x64", "osx-arm64" ],
      "extends" : [
        "microsoft-net-runtime-android-net7",
        "microsoft-net-runtime-android-aot-net7",
        "microsoft-net-runtime-android",

Two versions of WorkloadManifest.json under sdk-manifests, the latter with linux-arm64:

~$ head -n 20 ~/.dotnet/sdk-manifests/8.0.100/microsoft.net.sdk.android/34.0.43/WorkloadManifest.json
{
  "version": "34.0.43",
  "workloads": {
    "android": {
      "description": ".NET SDK Workload for building Android applications.",
      "packs": [
        "Microsoft.Android.Sdk.net8",
        "Microsoft.Android.Sdk.net7",
        "Microsoft.Android.Ref.34",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-arm",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-arm64",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-x86",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-x64",
        "Microsoft.Android.Templates"
      ],
      "platforms": [ "win-x64", "win-arm64", "linux-x64", "osx-x64", "osx-arm64" ],
      "extends" : [
        "microsoft-net-runtime-android-net7",
        "microsoft-net-runtime-android-aot-net7",
        "microsoft-net-runtime-android",

$ head -n 20 ~/.dotnet/sdk-manifests/8.0.100/microsoft.net.sdk.android/34.0.79/WorkloadManifest.json
{
  "version": "34.0.79",
  "workloads": {
    "android": {
      "description": ".NET SDK Workload for building Android applications.",
      "packs": [
        "Microsoft.Android.Sdk.net8",
        "Microsoft.Android.Sdk.net7",
        "Microsoft.Android.Ref.34",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-arm",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-arm64",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-x86",
        "Microsoft.Android.Runtime.34.android-x64",
        "Microsoft.Android.Templates"
      ],
      "platforms": [ "win-x64", "win-arm64", "linux-x64", "linux-arm64", "osx-x64", "osx-arm64" ],
      "extends" : [
        "microsoft-net-runtime-android-net7",
        "microsoft-net-runtime-android-aot-net7",
        "microsoft-net-runtime-android",