Cannot inherit android.app.IntentService with class-parse

[jpobst]

If you try to bind a class that inherits android.app.IntentService with class-parse you get the following error:

Error while processing type '[Class] com.microsoft.intune.mam.client.app.MAMIntentService': 
Type 'android.app.IntentService' was not found.

This is because we have used metadata to move android.app.IntentService to mono.android.app.IntentService. https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android/blob/51f56aacd9946231672f8c173e265bfe68cb52da/src/Mono.Android/metadata#L570-L583

When class-parse attempts to resolve the android.app.IntentService type it cannot be found.

This works with jar2xml because it resolves Java types using the Java jars, where the type is correct. By contrast, class-parse resolves Java types using the [Register] attribute in the C# assemblies which has the "moved" type name.

It is likely that we cannot "undo" this move now without breaking back-compatibility. Likely we are going to have to add a hack to generator to know this type was moved and we need to update references to it.

Repo:
https://github.com/msintuneappsdk/ms-intune-app-sdk-android/blob/master/Microsoft.Intune.MAM.SDK.aar

[brendanzagaeski]

Release status update

A new Preview version of Xamarin.Android has now been published that includes the fix for this item. The fix is not yet included in a Release version. I will update this item again when a Release version is available that includes the fix.

Fix included in Xamarin.Android SDK version 11.1.0.15.

Fix included on Windows in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview 4. To try the Preview version that includes the fix, check for the latest updates in Visual Studio Preview.

Fix included on macOS in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.8 Preview 4. To try the Preview version that includes the fix, check for the latest updates on the Preview updater channel.

[brendanzagaeski]

Release status update

A new Release version of Xamarin.Android has now been published that includes the fix for this item.

Fix included in Xamarin.Android SDK version 11.1.0.17.

Fix included on Windows in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8. To get the new version that includes the fix, check for the latest updates or install the most recent release from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/.

Fix included on macOS in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.8. To get the new version that includes the fix, check for the latest updates on the Stable updater channel.