Google Play: This App Bundle contains native code, and you've not uploaded debug symbols.

Question

I get the following warning when I try to create an internal testing release on Google Play:

This App Bundle contains native code, and you've not uploaded debug symbols. We recommend that you upload a symbol file to make your crashes and ANRs easier to analyse and debug.

How can I upload the debug symbols? Is it necessary to change something in my Android project in Visual Studio?

Answer 1

Hello,

How can I upload the debug symbols? Is it necessary to change something in my Android project in Visual Studio?

You need to enable the R8 and set AndroidLinkMode=r8 to get the mapping.txt file from Debug symbols upload on Google Play Console for better crash information #5378 , after that you need to create a ZIP file containing the debug symbols .so files and push Zip file and mapping.text file to google play console.

Firstly, please open your .csproj file add following properties.

<PropertyGroup>

....
     <AndroidEnableR8>true</AndroidEnableR8>
      <AndroidLinkTool>r8</AndroidLinkTool> 
    
      <AndroidSupportedAbis>armeabi-v7a;arm64-v8a;x86;x86_64</AndroidSupportedAbis>
      <DebugType>portable</DebugType>
      <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols> 
      <AndroidLinkMode>SdkOnly</AndroidLinkMode>
 </PropertyGroup>

Then rebuild and release your application.

You will find the native files (.so) in this path obj\Release\net8.0-android\app_shared_libraries And the mapping.textin this pathbin\Release\net8.0-android`.

Best Regards,

Leon Lu

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