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I made a guide how to manually create install-time asset packs on Windows 10/11 using Windows Subsystem for Linux and Visual Studio here:
Asset packs for Xamarin Android
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Ulrich Holeschak
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Are there any plans to add support for asset packs in xamarin android?
.obb files are not supported any more with app bundles, so asset packs are the only solution for lager apps now.
If the support is not planned, how is it possible to insert asset packs into existing bundles files (.aab) generated by visual studio?
Regards
Ulrich
Developer technologies | .NET | Xamarin
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Nicole Lu-MSFT 96 Reputation points2021-04-16T13:25:13.117+00:00 @Ulrich Holeschak Xamarin has a binding to Play Core Library: https://github.com/xamarin/XamarinComponents/tree/master/Android/Google.Play.Core which can be used to manage delivery of asset packs.
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StuartMiller 6 Reputation points2021-04-18T13:53:18.187+00:00 @Nicole Lu-MSFT @Ulrich Holeschak I'm also encountering the same issue... from what I can see, the Google.Play.Core bindings provide the API once you have an AAB with Asset Packs embedded... but the issue I'm facing, which I think is the same as Ulrich, is that I haven't found a way to build & embed the Asset Pack into the AAB that Xamarin generates ( and in my case, tagging that Asset Pack for install-time delivery ).
All the documentation provided by Google on Play Asset Delivery is based around Gradle ( even the docs for Native C++ support ) .. and as Xamarin doesn't use Gradle, there's not much information out there on how to achieve this.
If someone knows how to go about taking a bunch of files ( textures, audio, etc. ), turn that into an Asset Pack with tagging ( i.e. Install-Time, Fast-Follow, On-Demand etc. ) .. then embed it into the AAB that Xamarin generates, that would be a huge starting point.
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JessieZhang-MSFT 7,716 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff2021-04-19T02:05:31.307+00:00 Hi @Ulrich Holeschak , we'll have a check on this and get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
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JessieZhang-MSFT 7,716 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
2021-04-22T06:04:21.13+00:00 Hi @Ulrich Holeschak , we find that Android App Pakcages are not supported yet. But there is an open discussion around the work that would be needed to support Dynamic Feature modules, like Asset Bundles, on the Xam.Android github repository. See: Support for Dynamic Feature Modules · Issue #4810 . However we can make no comment on when or if this will ultimately be implemented.
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