Unable to debug Android MAUI App in Visual Studio for Mac

[todorsp]

Description

Hello, I know that Visual Studio for Mac is being phased out but still I am asking for help. Please, if the bug report needs to be directed somewhere else, advise.

When creating a brand new maui project from template in Visual Studio for Mac (17.6.14 (build 413)) or any other example project taken here: https://github.com/dotnet/maui-samples when I try to debug using an android emulator image the app gets loaded to the device but I get the following error: Cannot execute xxx/yyy/test.Droid.dll

iOS target can be debugged.

All necessary workloads seem to be installed:

Installed Workload Id Manifest Version Installation Source

maui-ios 8.0.72/8.0.100 SDK 8.0.300
maui-android 8.0.72/8.0.100 SDK 8.0.300
ios 17.5.8020/8.0.100 SDK 8.0.300
maui 8.0.72/8.0.100 SDK 8.0.300
android 34.0.113/8.0.100 SDK 8.0.300

Steps to Reproduce

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Link to public reproduction project repository

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Version with bug

8.0.3 GA

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Not sure, did not test other versions

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

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Did you find any workaround?

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Relevant log output

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[ninachen03]

I cannot repro on android platform on the latest Visual Studio for Mac (17.6.14 (build 413))(8.0.80).

[todorsp]

Hi, I am including some info regarding VS and also screenshots of the same RefreshView Demo you have included:

Visual Studio Community 2022 for Mac Version 17.6.14 (build 413) Installation UUID: f17c8fce-f2bd-49f7-bb46-9a8a2641168d

Runtime .NET 7.0.3 (64-bit) Architecture: Arm64 Microsoft.macOS.Sdk 13.1.1007; git-rev-head:8afca776a0a96613dfb7200e0917bb57f9ed5583; git-branch:release/7.0.1xx-xcode14.2

Roslyn (Language Service) 4.6.0-3.23180.6+99e956e42697a6dd886d1e12478ea2b27cceacfa

NuGet Version: 6.4.0.117

.NET SDK (Arm64) SDK: /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/8.0.300/Sdks SDK Versions: 8.0.300 8.0.101 8.0.100 7.0.405 7.0.311 7.0.308 7.0.307 7.0.306 7.0.304 7.0.302 7.0.203 7.0.202 7.0.201 7.0.200 7.0.103 7.0.102 6.0.425 6.0.424 6.0.422 MSBuild SDKs: /Applications/Visual Studio.app/Contents/MonoBundle/MSBuild/Current/bin/Sdks

.NET Runtime (Arm64) Runtime: /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet Runtime Versions: 8.0.5 8.0.1 8.0.0 7.0.15 7.0.14 7.0.11 7.0.10 7.0.9 7.0.7 7.0.5 7.0.4 7.0.3 7.0.2 6.0.33 6.0.32 6.0.30 6.0.25 6.0.22 6.0.21 6.0.20 6.0.18 6.0.16 6.0.15 6.0.14 6.0.13

Xamarin.Profiler '/Applications/Xamarin Profiler.app' not found

Updater Version: 11

Apple Developer Tools Xcode: 15.4 22622 Build: 15F31d

Xamarin.Android Version: 13.2.2.0 (Visual Studio Community) Commit: xamarin-android/d17-5/45b0e14 Android SDK: /Users/todor/bin/sdks Supported Android versions: 13.0 (API level 33)

SDK Command-line Tools Version: 7.0 SDK Platform Tools Version: 35.0.2 SDK Build Tools Version: 35.0.0

Build Information: Mono: d9a6e87 Java.Interop: xamarin/java.interop/d17-5@149d70fe SQLite: xamarin/sqlite/3.40.1@68c69d8 Xamarin.Android Tools: xamarin/xamarin-android-tools/d17-5@ca1552d

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK Java SDK: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/microsoft-11.jdk 11.0.16.1 Android Designer EPL code available here: https://github.com/xamarin/AndroidDesigner.EPL

Eclipse Temurin JDK Java SDK: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/temurin-8.jdk 1.8.0.302 Android Designer EPL code available here: https://github.com/xamarin/AndroidDesigner.EPL

Android SDK Manager Version: 17.6.0.50 Hash: a715dca Branch: HEAD Build date: 2024-08-07 17:47:27 UTC

Android Device Manager Version: 0.0.0.1309 Hash: 06e3e77 Branch: HEAD Build date: 2024-08-07 17:47:27 UTC

Xamarin.Mac Not Installed

Xamarin.iOS Version: 16.4.0.23 Visual Studio Community Hash: 9defd91b3 Branch: xcode14.3 Build date: 2023-10-23 16:15:00-0400

Xamarin Designer Version: 17.6.3.9 Hash: 2648399ae8 Branch: remotes/origin/d17-6 Build date: 2024-08-07 17:47:20 UTC

Build Information Release ID: 1706140413 Git revision: 29d5da805da9895dd02785823633e3bcfabdd769 Build date: 2024-08-07 17:45:52+00 Build branch: release-17.6 Build lane: release-17.6

Operating System Mac OS X 14.1.2 Darwin 23.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.1.0 Mon Oct 9 21:27:24 PDT 2023 root:xnu-10002.41.9~6/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

Enabled user installed extensions Template Creator 0.9 .NET Core Extensions 0.7

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[todorsp]

Ok, reinstalling visualstudioformacinstaller-17.6.0.80.dmg seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks for the feedback, Todor