Support for Android resources in MAUI libraries (e.g /layout, /drawable, /values, etc)?

[nCastle1]

I'm trying to port a custom control from Xamarin.Forms to MAUI. The control was wrapping Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS implementations of the control.

Porting the control to .NET 6+MAUI is going ok, but I can't get anything related to Android resources to work. Even following the same exact pattern as a MAUI project, Visual Studio isn't recognizing xml files in Platforms/Android/Resources/* as AndroidResource, and I can't manually change that.

I might just rewrite the layout in code, but that doesn't work as well for things like drawables.

[xtuzy]

maybe you can create a android class library to store android resources

[bulubuloa]

@nCastle1 Have you dealt with this? I have an issue accessing the Android resource XML via ID.
It seems MAUI does not generate resource file like Resource.designer.cs

[Pastajello]

So im not the only one. It should be possible with .Resources BUUUUT I have not been able to make it work at all. This project have it workig so i dunno:

[Pastajello]

Fun fact, on VS 2022 preview it works nicely. I add a drawable to the maui project, its there, sitting in the Resource class . Vs for Mac? Hardly.

[chrismcna]

In my library I added a folder Platforms/Android/Resources/drawable
then copied to the png into there, set it as "Embedded resource", the image then appeared in Resource.Drawable, code complies and icon displayed on notification in android that generated by the maui library

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