Android publish: error NETSDK1191: A runtime identifier for the property 'SelfContained' couldn't be inferred

Description

After .Net 8 Preview 5 publishing Android App broke.

dotnet publish ./MauiApp1/MauiApp1.csproj -f net8.0-android -c Release error NETSDK1191: A runtime identifier for the property ‘SelfContained’ couldn’t be inferred

A runtime Identifier cannot be speciified because Android publishes for several Processor Architectures android-arm64 android-arm for example.

Steps to Reproduce

Create new Maui Project select .Net 8.0 (Preview)
Execute on Command line dotnet publish ./MauiApp1/MauiApp1.csproj -f net8.0-android -c Release

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/inforithmics/AndroidMauiPublish

Version with bug

8.0.0-preview.5.8529

Last version that worked well

8.0.0-preview.4.8333

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

Android

Did you find any workaround?

specifying android runtime:

dotnet publish -r android-arm64 ./MauiApp1/MauiApp1.csproj -f net8.0-android -c Release

but this builds only for android-arm64 in .Net 8

dotnet publish ./MauiApp1/MauiApp1.csproj -f net7.0-android -c Release built in .Net 7 for the other platforms too (android-arm/android-arm64 for example)

Relevant log output

MSBuild version 17.7.0-preview-23281-03+4ce2ff1f8 for .NET
  Determining projects to restore...
  Restored C:\temp\MauiApp1\MauiApp1\MauiApp1.csproj (in 698 ms).
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\8.0.100-preview.5.23303.2\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.RuntimeIdentifierInf
erence.targets(212,5): error NETSDK1191: A runtime identifier for the property 'SelfContained' couldn't be inferred. Sp
ecify a rid explicitly. [C:\temp\MauiApp1\MauiApp1\MauiApp1.csproj::TargetFramework=net8.0-android]

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 months ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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jonathanpepperscommented, Jun 20, 2023

For now, the workarounds are:

Use dotnet build instead
Set <PublishSelfContained>false</PublishSelfContained> or <SelfContained>false</SelfContained> in your .csproj, the Android build forces SelfContained=true no matter what.

There isn’t a non-self-contained Android app, as that would imply some kind of system-wide .NET package from Google Play, etc. that runs on Android. We don’t have such a thing.

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inforithmicscommented, Jun 21, 2023

Setting <SelfContained>false</SelfContained> in the csproj worked - Thanks.