Assetpack file not included on "Debug" compilation about xamarin-android

[dellis1972]

@TipsterTrust so the AndroidAppBundleModules only works with <AndroidPackageFormat>aab</AndroidPackageFormat >. So this is not a bug, its behaving as expected.
To debug this you will need to change your debug settings to use the following.

<AndroidPackageFormat>aab</AndroidPackageFormat>
<EmbedAssembliesIntoApk>true</EmbedAssembliesIntoApk>

The good news is we added support for install time asset pack AndroidAsset items in .net 9 preview, see the following for detail https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/blob/main/Documentation/guides/AndroidAssetPacks.md.

[dellis1972]

@TipsterTrust How are you including the asset pack in the build?
I don't see any ItemGroup entries in the csproj xml you posted.

[TipsterTrust]

Hi @dellis1972, this way:

<ItemGroup>
    <AndroidAppBundleModules Include="assetpack\assets.zip" />
 </ItemGroup>

And the Manifest included on the .zip is this one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    xmlns:dist="http://schemas.android.com/apk/distribution"
    package="XXXXXXXX" split="assetsfeature">

  <dist:module dist:type="asset-pack">
    <dist:delivery>
      <dist:install-time/>
    </dist:delivery>
    <dist:fusing dist:include="true" />
  </dist:module>
</manifest>