Support for Android resources in MAUI libraries (e.g /layout, /drawable, /values, etc)?

[nCastle1]

I'm trying to port a custom control from Xamarin.Forms to MAUI. The control was wrapping Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS implementations of the control.

Porting the control to .NET 6+MAUI is going ok, but I can't get anything related to Android resources to work. Even following the same exact pattern as a MAUI project, Visual Studio isn't recognizing xml files in Platforms/Android/Resources/* as AndroidResource, and I can't manually change that.

I might just rewrite the layout in code, but that doesn't work as well for things like drawables.

[xtuzy]

maybe you can create a android class library to store android resources

[bulubuloa]

@nCastle1 Have you dealt with this? I have an issue accessing the Android resource XML via ID.
It seems MAUI does not generate resource file like Resource.designer.cs

[Pastajello]

So im not the only one. It should be possible with .Resources BUUUUT I have not been able to make it work at all. This project have it workig so i dunno:

[Pastajello]

Fun fact, on VS 2022 preview it works nicely. I add a drawable to the maui project, its there, sitting in the Resource class . Vs for Mac? Hardly.