How do you add a file/module to Android App Bundle (AAB) Modules in MAUI?

[TommiGustafsson-HMP]

In Xamarin.Forms/Xamarin.Android, you can add files to Android App Bundle Modules using MSBuild in Xamarin.Android project file like this:

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

It seems to be changed in MAUI. At least I could not find any reference to AndroidAppBundleModules in the MAUI repository. How are you supposed to add modules to the AAB in MAUI?

[xtuzy]

Xamarin.Android is dotnet-android, maui use dotnet-android, you can try use it in pure dotnet-android class library and reference this class library in maui app

[TommiGustafsson-HMP]

This is not helpful, since we are talking about MSBuild. What are you talking about?

[dellis1972]

@TommiGustafsson-HMP

Maui uses the dotnet-android SDK underthe hood. So you should still be able to add AndroidAppBundleModules Items to your csproj as normal. Other SDKs (iOS, Windows etc) should ignore this ItemGroup since they don't use it. But the dotnet-android sdk will still pick them up. Just make sure your AndroidPackageFormat is set to aab in the csproj too.

[TommiGustafsson-HMP]

Thanks alot!