Google change the route apk files to aab files. So I see that now you can’t upload and deploy apk file using Xamarin. Down below I will share how to create aab file using Xamarin Mac sign the aab file and upload that to store. Today Xamarin UI does not support the Archiving Android applications so here are some tricks.
Here is my development environment versions;
- Visual Studio 8.3 Preview build 1290
- Xcode 10.3
- Xamarin.Mac 5.16.1.9
- Xamarin.Android 10.0.0.4
Follow these steps,
- Creating AAB file against APK file
- On your Android project edit csproj file with a text editor.
- And these lines
<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
<AndroidPackageFormat>aab</AndroidPackageFormat>
</PropertyGroup>