Can MonoAndroid continue to be supported? The project uses it, but the new version does not support it, affecting the maintenance of previous projects

[ghd258]

Can MonoAndroid continue to be supported? The project uses it, but the new version does not support it, affecting the maintenance of previous projects

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Microsoft dropped support for Xamarin over two years ago. I would think your project has other maintenance issues besides just SQLitePCLRaw.

[ghd258]

We also need to consider the maintenance of old project technologies. Upgrading everything would be too costly, so there's no need to delete them

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What version of SQLitePCLRaw are you talking about?

The problem with supporting Xamarin is that it's difficult to even do builds when the Xamarin toolchain is no longer updated,or supported.

[ghd258]

SQLitePCLRaw.lib.e_sqlite3.android 2.1.12 2.1.13

[ericsink]

Oh, now I see what you're talking about.

The latest release of SQLitePCLRaw is 3.x, and in the 3.x cycle, we removed support for Xamarin classic, but retained support for the Android and iOS mobile platforms on modern .NET.

Recently we did versions 2.1.12 and 2.1.13, which are maintenance releases that were done for Microsoft's patch releases for .NET 8, 9, and 10. Unfortunately, there was no easy way to keep MonoAndroid in those packages, for the same reasons that we discontinued support for that platform in 3.x.

If you need to stay on Xamarin classic, it is likely you should just stay with 2.1.11.