
Just to reiterate (for convenience), you will need to update the Debug configuration section in the. The instruction for this part of the challenge are documented here. Let's go through these in details one by one.ĭISCLAIMER: I'm performing all of the improvements on an already existing store app Visual Stimulation. This #XamarinChallenge is about three very important application related topics:

Optimize your Xamarin.Android Builds by Jonathan Peppers.Faster Startup Times With Startup Tracing On Android by Jon Douglas.Faster Xamarin.Android Builds & Smaller Dex Files - by Jonathan Peppers.In case you've missed all of the improvements that the Xamarin.Forms team has been releasing, here's a bunch of links to blog posts/docs/articles that will get you up to speed with all of the latest and greatest in the Xamarin and Android app performance, build times and package size reduction world.

In the spirit of the #XamarinChallenge and the fact that I've recently been dealing with reducing the size of my application (see my previous blog post on Fixing Xamarin.Forms linker issues), I've decided to see what are the other means of getting your app package to decrease in size and potentially improving its performance.
