Xamarin.Android 8.3 Release Notes
System Requirements | What's New | No Known Issues | Blogs | Open Source
Installing
- Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 – Visual Studio Installer
- Visual Studio 2017 for Mac – Stable updater channel
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Release History
- May 31st, 2018 - Xamarin.Android 8.3.3.2
- May 7th, 2018 - Xamarin.Android 8.3.0.19
You can learn more about how we ship our releases in the Visual Studio 2017 Release Rhythm document.
May 31st, 2018 - Xamarin.Android 8.3.3.2
This version is included in the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.3 release.
Issues Fixed
- GitHub 1651 Bundled app initialization error (vs 15.7 preview)
- GitHub 1657 [Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks] Designer items should be const for apps.
- GitHub 1679 System.Memory facade is missing from the installation
- GitHub 1731 [Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks] Fix Intellisense errors for switch statements
May 7th, 2018 - Xamarin.Android 8.3.0.19
This version is included in the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 release.
Issues Fixed
- Bugzilla 58413 Environment.Tickcount is changed when the date is changed in android.
- GitHub 1498 Unable to build against preview Android API levels.
- GitHub 1541
Aapt2 Task fails with Error Access to the path
obj\Debug\monoandroid81\android\src
is denied. - GitHub 1511
Unstable framework versions are used when
$(AndroidUselatestPlatformSDK)=true
. - GitHub 1474 Fix an issue where the 'ref' nuget is not found on windows.
- GitHub 1262 Managed Resource Parser is not aware of some Resource types, and fails to provide intellisense for them.
- DevCom 202643 The "ConvertResourcesCases" task failed unexpectedly.
- GitHub 1323
Updates
CalculateProjectDependencies
to match new spec. - GitHub 1327 Adds support for Generated Resources via VSForMac.
- GitHub 1321
Adds tests for
<ResolveSdks/>
- GitHub 1221
Prevents
$(AndroidUseLatestPlatformSdk)
from using Unstable APIs - GitHub 1287
Adds Default Metadata for
@(AndroidResource)
Items. - GitHub 1154 Improves .NET Standard support.
- GitHub 1331 Fixes Proguard crash on startup - preserves ManagedPeer class.
Integrated Mono Features/Fixes
Xamarin.Android uses Mono 5.10 Commit ea8a24b1
What's New in this Release
TLS 1.2+ Support by Default
Xamarin.Android introduces BTLS as default TLS 1.2+ provider.
OSS Core
Xamarin.Android 8.3 is based on the open-source Xamarin.Android repositories:
- Core JNI interaction logic is in the Java.Interop repo
- Android bindings and MSBuild tooling are in the xamarin-android repo.
- Chat is in the
xamarin/xamarin-android
Gitter channel.