Xamarin.Android task

08/10/2016
2 minutes to read

Azure Pipelines | Azure DevOps Server 2019 | TFS 2018 | TFS 2017 | TFS 2015

Use this task in a build or release pipeline to build an Android app with .

Demands

AndroidSDK, MSBuild, Xamarin.Android

YAML snippet

# Xamarin.Android
# Build an Android app with Xamarin
- task: XamarinAndroid@1
  inputs:
    #projectFile: '**/*.csproj' 
    #target: # Optional
    #outputDirectory: # Optional
    #configuration: # Optional
    #createAppPackage: true # Optional
    #clean: false # Optional
    #msbuildLocationOption: 'version' # Optional. Options: version, location
    #msbuildVersionOption: '15.0' # Optional. Options: latest, 15.0, 14.0, 12.0, 4.0
    #msbuildFile: # Required when msbuildLocationOption == Location
    #msbuildArchitectureOption: 'x86' # Optional. Options: x86, x64
    #msbuildArguments: # Optional
    #jdkOption: 'JDKVersion' # Options: jDKVersion, path
    #jdkVersionOption: 'default' # Optional. Options: default, 1.11, 1.10, 1.9, 1.8, 1.7, 1.6
    #jdkDirectory: # Required when jdkOption == Path
    #jdkArchitectureOption: 'x64' # Optional. Options: x86, x64

Arguments

Argument	Description
Project	If you want to build a single Xamarin.Android project, click the ... button and select the project. If you want to build multiple projects, specify search criteria. You can use a single-folder wildcard () and recursive wildcards (). For example, `/.Android.csproj` searches for all Android.csproj files in all subdirectories in your repo.
Target	(Optional) Specify the project targets you want to build. Use a semicolon to separate multiple targets.
Output Directory	Use a variable to specify the folder where you want the output files to go. For example: `$(build.binariesdirectory)/$(BuildConfiguration)`
Configuration	Specify the configuration you want to build such as `debug` or `release`. Tip: Declare a build variable such as `BuildConfiguration` on the Variables tab (selecting Allow at Queue Time) and reference it here as `$(BuildConfiguration)`. This way you can modify the platform when you queue the build and enable building multiple configurations.
MSBuild Options
MSBuild Location	(Optional) Path to MSBuild (on Windows) or xbuild (on macOS). Default behavior is to search for the latest version.
Additional Arguments	You can pass additional arguments to MSBuild (on Windows) or xbuild (on macOS). For syntax, see MSBuild Command-Line Reference.
JDK Options
Select JDK to use for the build	Pick the JDK to be used during the build by selecting a JDK version that will be discovered during builds or by manually entering a JDK path. JDK Version: Select the JDK version you want to use. JDK Path: Specify the path to the JDK you want to use.
JDK Architecture	Select x86 or x64.
Control options

Example

Build your Xamarin app

Open source

This task is open source on GitHub. Feedback and contributions are welcome.

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