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Author: dellis1972

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

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

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

@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ void Extract (
 				string outDirForDll = Path.Combine (OutputImportDirectory, aarIdentityName);
 				string importsDir = Path.Combine (outDirForDll, ImportsDirectory);
 				string resDir = Path.Combine (importsDir, "res");
+				string resDirArchive = Path.Combine (resDir, "..", "res.zip");
 				string assetsDir = Path.Combine (importsDir, "assets");
 
 				bool updated = false;
@@ -365,7 +366,7 @@ 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)},
+							{ ResourceDirectoryArchive, Path.GetFullPath (resDirArchive)},
 						}));
 					}
 					if (Directory.Exists (assetsDir))
@@ -415,14 +416,15 @@ void Extract (
 					}
 				}
 				if (Directory.Exists (resDir)) {
+					CreateResourceArchive (resDir, resDirArchive);
 					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},
+						{ ResourceDirectoryArchive, resDirArchive},
 					}));
 				}
 				if (Directory.Exists (assetsDir))