Android App and iOS App

[Abdul Rahman (fingers10)]

Does the aspire today has ability to pull and run android and ios apps? We use aspire a lot and our dotnet backend has apks in front end. So if we have an option, this would help us in doing a distributed testing. Note we are not using MAUI. Any inputs on this setup will be much appreciated. I'm coming here after seeing const api = await builder.addDotnetProject('api', '../Api/Api.csproj'); same way can we add const api = await builder.addAndroidApk('apk', '../output/App.apk');. This way once I get the final build I can directly run that apk.

[David Fowler (davidfowl)]

No there’s no first class support for this today

[Abdul Rahman (fingers10)]

David Fowler (@davidfowl) many thanks for your time and response. Any plans to include this support in road map?

[David Fowler (davidfowl)]

No short term plans afaik. Maddy Montaquila (@maddymontaquila) can chime in about that though.

[Maddy Montaquila (maddymontaquila)]

No plans atm. I've seen folks wire it up with AddExecutable though. Would love a contribution for this into the Community Toolkit!

[Abdul Rahman (fingers10)]

Maddy Montaquila (@maddymontaquila) can you point to any examples of apk loading with Add Executable? I'm confused as I'm not able to find apk examples in official docs..

[Maddy Montaquila (maddymontaquila)]

Maddy Montaquila (Maddy Montaquila (@maddymontaquila)) can you point to any examples of apk loading with Add Executable? I'm confused as I'm not able to find apk examples in official docs..

We don't have samples - I'm just saying I've seen folks in the community hack up something like that.