Xamarin.Android 10.3.1.0 Preview

May 14, 2020 — Xamarin.Android 10.3.1.0 was published as part of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 Preview 6.

Corresponding Visual Studio 2019 release notes

• Visual Studio 2019
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac

Issues fixed in Xamarin.Android 10.3.1.0

Application and library build and deployment

• Developer Community 1024028, GitHub 4596, GitHub 4660: Starting in Xamarin.Android 10.2.100.7, System.MemberAccessException: Cannot create an instance of ... could cause apps to abort when attempting to use certain APIs that have both generic and non-generic versions.

Installing

To get the new version in Visual Studio, update Visual Studio:

• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 Preview 6 — Visual Studio for Mac Installer with the Preview updater channel

For other scenarios, the commercial .pkg installer package can be found in the project README.

Open source

Xamarin.Android 10.3 is based on the open-source Xamarin.Android repositories:

• The Mono runtime and class library artifacts for this version come from the android-release-Darwin-*.7z archive generated by the Mono open-source build: archive-mono/job/2020-02 build #66.
• Core JNI interaction logic is in the Java.Interop repo.
• Android bindings and MSBuild tooling are in the xamarin-android repo.
• Chat is in the xamarin/xamarin-android Gitter channel.