have a .NET MAUI Project with a lot of assets (images) in the Resources\Images directory that shall be deployed to the Google Play Store. This means that the size of the generated aab package is way beyond the Google Play Store limit of 150MB. (Message: Your App Bundle contains the following configurations where the initial install would exceed the maximum size of 150 MB...)
My current solution resizes the images to <= 150MB. I now saw that there is the possibility to generate separate files for the assets, which is called Play Feature Delivery.
From this sample project I get the following gradle file to create an install-time-package:
apply plugin: 'com.android.asset-pack'
assetPack {
packName = "install_time_asset_pack" // Directory name for the asset pack
dynamicDelivery {
deliveryType = "install-time" // delivery mode
}
}
My question is: Can this somehow be done with .NET MAUI? Is it possible to add some elements to the csproj-file to do this, just like for example for the keystore:
<PropertyGroup Condition="$(TargetFramework.Contains('-android')) and '$(Configuration)' == 'Release'">
<AndroidKeyStore>True</AndroidKeyStore>
<AndroidSigningKeyStore>..\myapp.keystore</AndroidSigningKeyStore>
<AndroidSigningKeyAlias>key</AndroidSigningKeyAlias>
<AndroidSigningKeyPass>SuperSecretPassword!</AndroidSigningKeyPass>
<AndroidSigningStorePass></AndroidSigningStorePass>
</PropertyGroup>
The characteristic of the app and the users makes it impossible to load the images at runtime, e.g. via https.