[.NET 10] investigate how to ship fewer copies of Mono.Android.dll

[jonathanpeppers]

Android framework version

Other

Affected platform version

.NET 10

Description

Right now we have this many Mono.Android.dll

• ref pack, reference assembly for Mono.Android.dll
• android-arm Mono.Android.dll
• android-arm64 Mono.Android.dll
• android-x86 Mono.Android.dll
• android-x64 Mono.Android.dll

Where the last four are identical, because it's managed code and not tied to a RID at all. Ideally, we could reduce this to 1 ref assembly and 1 runtime assembly.

This is going to get even worse if we support multiple runtimes in the future: NativeAOT, etc.

Steps to Reproduce

1. dotnet workload install android
2. Look at the Mono.Android.dll files on disk.

Did you find any workaround?

n/a

Relevant log output

[jpobst]

This is going to get even worse if we support multiple runtimes in the future: NativeAOT, etc.

Also with Google now releasing APIs twice a year, it's going to get worse due to supporting multiple API Levels per .NET version.