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Author: dellis1972

src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/CollectNonEmptyDirectories.cs

@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ public override bool RunTask ()
 						}
 						var fileTaskItem = new TaskItem (file, new Dictionary<string, string> () {
 							{ "ResourceDirectory", directory.ItemSpec },
-							{ ResolveLibraryProjectImports.ResourceDirectoryArchive, Path.Combine (directory.ItemSpec, "..", "res.zip") },
 							{ "StampFile", generateArchive ? stampFile : file },
 							{ "FilesCache", filesCache},
 							{ "Hash", stampFile },

src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tasks/ResolveLibraryProjectImports.cs

@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ public class ResolveLibraryProjectImports : AndroidTask
 		internal const string ResourceDirectoryArchive = "ResourceDirectoryArchive";
 		static readonly string [] knownMetadata = new [] {
 			OriginalFile,
-			AndroidSkipResourceProcessing
+			AndroidSkipResourceProcessing,
+			ResourceDirectoryArchive
 		};
 
 		AssemblyIdentityMap assemblyMap = new AssemblyIdentityMap();
@@ -179,6 +180,7 @@ void Extract (
 				string importsDir = Path.Combine (outDirForDll, ImportsDirectory);
 				string nativeimportsDir = Path.Combine (outDirForDll, NativeImportsDirectory);
 				string resDir = Path.Combine (importsDir, "res");
+				string resDirArchive = Path.Combine (resDir, "..", "res.zip");
 				string assetsDir = Path.Combine (importsDir, "assets");
 
 				// Skip already-extracted resources.
@@ -196,6 +198,7 @@ void Extract (
 					if (Directory.Exists (resDir)) {
 						var taskItem = new TaskItem (Path.GetFullPath (resDir), new Dictionary<string, string> {
 							{ OriginalFile, assemblyPath },
+							{ ResourceDirectoryArchive, Path.GetFullPath (resDirArchive)},
 						});
 						if (bool.TryParse (assemblyItem.GetMetadata (AndroidSkipResourceProcessing), out skip) && skip)
 							taskItem.SetMetadata (AndroidSkipResourceProcessing, "True");
@@ -292,9 +295,11 @@ void Extract (
 							// which resulted in missing resource issue.
 							// Here we replaced copy with use of '-S' option and made it to work.
 							if (Directory.Exists (resDir)) {
-								CreateResourceArchive (resDir, assemblyItem.GetMetadata (ResourceDirectoryArchive));
+								CreateResourceArchive (resDir, resDirArchive);
 								var taskItem = new TaskItem (Path.GetFullPath (resDir), new Dictionary<string, string> {
-									{ OriginalFile, assemblyPath }
+									{ OriginalFile, assemblyPath },
+									{ ResourceDirectoryArchive, Path.GetFullPath (resDirArchive)},
+
 								});
 								if (bool.TryParse (assemblyItem.GetMetadata (AndroidSkipResourceProcessing), out skip) && skip)
 									taskItem.SetMetadata (AndroidSkipResourceProcessing, "True");
@@ -360,6 +365,7 @@ void Extract (
 						resolvedResourceDirectories.Add (new TaskItem (Path.GetFullPath (resDir), new Dictionary<string, string> {
 							{ OriginalFile, Path.GetFullPath (aarFile.ItemSpec) },
 							{ AndroidSkipResourceProcessing, skipProcessing },
+							{ ResourceDirectoryArchive, Path.GetFullPath (aarFile.ItemSpec)},
 						}));
 					}
 					if (Directory.Exists (assetsDir))
@@ -409,14 +415,14 @@ void Extract (
 					}
 				}
 				if (Directory.Exists (resDir)) {
-					CreateResourceArchive (resDir, aarFile.GetMetadata (ResourceDirectoryArchive));
 					var skipProcessing = aarFile.GetMetadata (AndroidSkipResourceProcessing);
 					if (string.IsNullOrEmpty (skipProcessing)) {
 						skipProcessing = "True";
 					}
 					resolvedResourceDirectories.Add (new TaskItem (Path.GetFullPath (resDir), new Dictionary<string, string> {
 						{ OriginalFile, aarFullPath },
 						{ AndroidSkipResourceProcessing, skipProcessing },
+						{ ResourceDirectoryArchive, aarFullPath},
 					}));
 				}
 				if (Directory.Exists (assetsDir))