This eliminates the need to have to build, sign, and manage multiple APKs based on their ABI, locale, screen size, and more. Additionally, you can use dynamic feature modules<\/em> to define what feature modules and resources that users first download when they install your application.<\/p>\n Using Android App Bundles increases the app size limit to 150MB without having to use those pesky APK expansion files. One of the many benefits you get when using Android App Bundles.<\/p>\n As your application size increases, so does the complexity of your application. Your users may run into problems such as:<\/p>\n Instead, you can gain the benefits such as:<\/p>\n If you’re curious on how this will impact your Android application today, check out these App Bundle Size Savings<\/a>.<\/p>\n We wanted to see the benefits this would have on Xamarin, and to our surprise we saw some magnificent results!<\/p>\n Here we have an APK that was 39.4MB<\/strong> using a traditional upload to Google Play. After creating an Android App Bundle instead, we cut our app download size to 23.3MB<\/strong>! That’s a decrease of over 35%!<\/p>\n To build app bundles and support Dynamic Delivery, you can follow these steps:<\/p>\n App bundles differ from APKs as they cannot be deployed directly to a device. Rather, it’s a format that is intended to be uploaded with all of your compiled code and resources. After you upload your signed app bundle, Google Play will have everything it needs to build and sign your application’s APKs and serve them to your users using Dynamic Delivery.<\/p>\n If you’re using Visual Studio, you can build your project as a signed app bundle in just a few clicks. If you’re not using the IDE, you can instead build an app bundle from the command line.<\/a><\/p>\n To enable support for Android App Bundles, you’ll need to opt-in to the After you’ve completed these steps, you can generate an app bundle by right clicking your project and selecting After you’ve created your Android App Bundle, you can test how Google Play will generate the respective APKs when deployed to a device. To test your app bundle, you may try to:<\/p>\n For more detailed information on Android App Bundles, please see Google’s\u00a0documentation on Android App Bundles<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n With just a few clicks, you can upload your Android App Bundle to Google Play today and give your users the gift this holiday season of a smaller, optimized, dynamic APK for their devices!<\/p>\n We encourage your feedback on any issues to be reported via the\u00a0Report a Problem<\/a>\u00a0option found in your favorite IDE via\u00a0Help > Report a Problem.<\/strong>\u00a0If you have any questions regarding Android App Bundles, please post them on the\u00a0Xamarin Forums<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Stack Overflow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Android App Bundle (.aab) is a new upload format that includes all of your app\u2019s compiled code and resources, but defers APK generation and signing to Google Play at install time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":46010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,1],"tags":[5,7425,7424],"class_list":["post-46009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","category-xamarin","tag-android","tag-android-app-bundle","tag-app-bundles"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" The Android App Bundle (.aab) is a new upload format that includes all of your app\u2019s compiled code and resources, but defers APK generation and signing to Google Play at install time.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Android](\"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/12\/AppBundles.png\")
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Release<\/code><\/li>\nBuild and deploy Android App Bundles<\/h2>\n
bundle<\/code> value of the Android Package Format<\/strong> property within your Android options. As you do this, ensure you change your project to a Release<\/code> configuration as app bundles are intended for release packages only. To do this you can follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n
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<\/p>\nArchive<\/code>. This will generate an app bundle for your application.<\/p>\n![\"Build](\"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/12\/Archive.png\")
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