Today we are announcing the first preview release of Embeddinator-4000 for Android available on NuGet. The package also includes the previously released iOS support.
nuget install Embeddinator-4000
This will place Embeddinator-4000.exe into the packages/Embeddinator-4000/tools directory.
This release supports the following scenarios:
- Call C# code from Java or C
- Package a Xamarin.Android library project into an AAR package for use in Android Studio
- Include Android layouts, drawables, assets, etc. from C# projects
- Default linker behavior of
SdkOnly - Generate AAR files on either Windows or OS X
- Use Xamarin.Forms’ new embedding API to use Xamarin.Forms from Java
- Package a .NET library project into a JAR file for use from Java on desktop platforms
- Package a .NET library project into a
dylib,so, ordllas appropriate per platform for use from C
For general usage, run Embeddinator on a compiled Android library assembly as follows:
mono Embeddinator-4000.exe -gen=Java -platform=Android -c YourAndroidLibrary.dll
This will output YourAndroidLibrary.aar for use in Android Studio.
In Android Studio, create a new module and choose Import .JAR/.AAR package:
Adding a dependency to the new module, will give Java access to your .NET code:
For detailed instructions on using Embeddinator-4000 for Android see our Getting Started guide.
For a complete walkthrough, check out this video embedding Charles Petzold’s FingerPaint demo in an Android Studio project here:
Embeddinator-4000 for Android (YouTube)
For iOS support, you can use objcgen.exe included in the NuGet package. Additionally, you can follow the iOS Getting Started guide.