The Mono Runtime is installed automatically when debugging through USB, but not in the Release APK.
If you set it to true, the APK will use Mono Runtime to execute. These are necessary to build your APK for the Google Play Store. Using the following options, you can reduce the APK size: Xamarin Android APK files have a larger size than usual because they include the Xamarin libraries, that translate C# code to Java code, to run in Android OS. I am also curious to know if Microsoft doing something to improve app package sizes? Or will this be resolved if they bring. However I was surprised with it's app size. In one of the recent Microsoft tech conferences I happened to know that "9 News" app (link below) was built using xamarin, and the creators were present on the stage. įor my app and the blank app I created, the necessary dlls seem to be high (example mscorlib.dll is 2.2mb etc, where as the link says after linking it will become 1 mb) Here is what I see as my assembly folder after extracting the apk Per the below link the minimum size is 2.9MB with the Hello World app, however I am unable to create such size. I then tried creating a blank Xamarin.Android app, but the release build with Linking SDK & User Assemblies, ProGuard, APK for each abi is still ~8MB to ~13MB. I later realized that this is because of the option "Use Shared Runtime" which we are not supposed to use in Release Mode. The apk actually was just 5MB in debug mode and was so happy to see it. So, after all the hard-work developing the app using Xamarin.Forms, when I tried to create a release build today, I was shocked to see the app size is ~25MB - ~31MB (after SDK Only Linking, ProGuard, Creating apk for each abi).
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