State of Android 16kb Page Size Support

[brentpbc]

Has anyone successfully supported 16kb page sizes on Android yet?

It looks like the main SQLite nuget praeclarum/sqlite-net that's recommended in the MS docs doesn't currently support 16kb page sizes. Has anyone worked around this? I would of thought most apps would utilise sqlite in some form.

See
praeclarum/sqlite-net#1272
and
ericsink/SQLitePCL.raw#621

I have also found FFImageLoading.Maui is referencing old SkiaSharp libraries microspaze/FFImageLoading.Maui#65

Which is then causing the below when FFImageLoading.Maui is nuget is added.

Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2207,2): Warning XA0141 : Android 16 will require 16 KB page sizes, shared library 'libHarfBuzzSharp.so' does not have a 16 KB page size. Please inform the authors of the NuGet package 'HarfBuzzSharp.NativeAssets.Android' version '7.3.0.3' which contains 'runtimes/android-x64/native/libHarfBuzzSharp.so'. See https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/page-sizes for more details.
0>Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(2207,2): Warning XA0141 : Android 16 will require 16 KB page sizes, shared library 'libSkiaSharp.so' does not have a 16 KB page size. Please inform the authors of the NuGet package 'SkiaSharp.NativeAssets.Android' version '2.88.9' which contains 'runtimes/android-x64/native/libSkiaSharp.so'. See https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/page-sizes for more details.

I have created this super simple repo to demonstrate 16kb issues: https://github.com/brentpbc/MauiAndroid16kb

Thanks in advance.

[giuseppenovielli]

Hi @brentpbc,
try -> #23331 (reply in thread)
for .NET Android 16KB support, i don't know for sqlite

[brentpbc]

Thanks giuseppenovielli, when I tested a blank .net Maui app it didn't have any 16kb warnings so I think .net Maui by itself shoud support the new requirement.

[phillippschmedt]

For sqlite-net there is work being done here praeclarum/sqlite-net#1282 (the update to SQLitePCL 3.0 will fix the 16kb issues).
Be aware that the sqlite-net-sqlcipher will not be updated to support 16kb. You need to change to a different library if this is what you need.

[brentpbc]

It looks like v1.3.0 of FFImageLoading.Maui has added 16kb Page Size support but I have not tested it yet. microspaze/FFImageLoading.Maui#74

[danieltharris]

Is there an easy way to check what libraries are causing 16kb not to be supported? Also do you need to change a project setting to enable 16kb when archiving?