Android developers can produce smaller apps when targeting .NET6

[marek-safar]

This is a tracking issue for all cross teamwork to deliver the same or better app size for Xamarin Android workloads which migrate to .NET6

Goals

• Same or smaller size SingleActivity app targetting arm64 (less than 4.78 MB)
• Same or smaller size default Xamarin.Forms app (less than 10.0 MB)

Work Items

• Core Managed libraries size reduction on top of Core Managed libraries size-reduction for WebAssembly #44530
• Android-specific size reduction work https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/projects/15
• MAUI-specific size reduction work
• Enable size tracking testing infrastructure for netcore
  • Add size tracking for Android functional tests
  • Add size tracking for Xamarin-Android sample
  • Add size tracking for MAUI Android sample

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Issue Details

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This is a tracking issue for all cross teamwork to deliver the same or better app size for Xamarin Android workloads which migrate to .NET6

Goals

• Same or smaller size SingleActivity app targetting arm64 (less than 4.78 MB)
• Same or smaller size default Xamarin.Forms app (less than 10.0 MB)

Work Items

• Core Managed libraries size reduction on top of Core Managed libraries size-reduction for WebAssembly #44530
• Android-specific size reduction work https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/projects/15
• MAUI-specific size reduction work
• Enable size tracking testing infrastructure for netcore
  • Add size tracking for Android functional tests
  • Add size tracking for Xamarin-Android sample
  • Add size tracking for MAUI Android sample

Author:	marek-safar
Assignees:	marek-safar, SamMonoRT
Labels:	area-Meta, os-android, tracking, size-reduction
Milestone:	6.0.0

[danmoseley]

@marek-safar can we close this now?