Xamarin.Android 11.1.0.17 Preview

October 20, 2020 — Xamarin.Android 11.1.0.17 was published as part of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 5 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.8 Preview 5

Corresponding Visual Studio 2019 Preview release notes

• Visual Studio 2019 Preview
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview

What's new

• Default Android SDK Platform-Tools version update to 30.0
• Issues fixed
• Installing
• Open source

Default Android SDK Platform-Tools version update to 30.0

The default Android SDK Platform-Tools version has been updated from 29.0.5 to 30.0.4. This version can be changed per-project if needed via the AndroidSdkPlatformToolsVersion MSBuild property.

Issues fixed

Bindings projects

• GitHub 5027: Syntax errors similar to ) expected could prevent building bindings projects after updating the Compile using Android version: (Target Framework) setting to Android 11 (R).

Installing

To get the new version in Visual Studio, update Visual Studio:

• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 5 — Visual Studio Installer
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.8 Preview 5 — Visual Studio for Mac Installer with the Preview updater channel

For other scenarios, the latest commercial .vsix and .pkg installer packages can be found in the project README.

Open source

Xamarin.Android 11.1 is based on the open-source Xamarin.Android repositories:

• The Mono runtime and class library artifacts for this version come from the android-release-Darwin-*.7z archive generated by the Mono open-source build: archive-mono/job/2020-02 build #105.
• 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 #android channel on the DotNetEvolution Discord server.