NSec works on .NET MAUI (Android)

[kerosina]

Hello,
I got NSec working on Android.

For it to work, I had to edit NSec, remove the reference to libsodium and edit src/Interop/Interop.Libraries.cs, changing "libsodium" to "libsodium.so", then use that edited NSec with MAUI.

After that, I had to compile libsodium from source for android, grab the .so it built (the files along with it, like libsodium.a etc. aren't needed) and then put it inside the project, inside a folder called "arm64-v8a" that's inside a folder called "lib". The libsodium.so also had to have BuildAction of AndroidNativeLibrary.

The reason I had to remove the reference to libsodium was because, with it, the compiler would add the libsodium.so for linux aarch64 and not our custom android one, which the libsodium nuget package didn't contain. The reason Interop.Libraries.cs had to be modified was because MAUI wouldn't find "libsodium" if it was passed to DllImport, but it would find libsodium.so.

[kerosina]

This isn't an issue, but since theres no discussions tab I decided to post it here.

[ektrah]

That's great to hear! Does every application have to have its own libsodium.so with a BuildAction of AndroidNativeLibrary or is there maybe a way to wrap this all up and offer it as a NuGet package? If the latter, we could add this to the libsodium NuGet package. Sorry, I'm not very familiar with .NET on Android.

[Jonydeere1]

I got NSec working on Android.

For it to work, I had to edit NSec, remove the reference to libsodium and edit src/Interop/Interop.Libraries.cs, changing "libsodium" to "libsodium.so", then use that edited NSec with MAUI.

I didn't understand a single F# 😢

I just needed to know if it could be used in MAUI Android (and now I know it can). 🤟

So, thank you very much for the information.

I know that to understand what you're saying, I need to learn all the 'dark magic' of .NET, and my knowledge of C# isn't enough (naive of me when I said, "I'll just learn C# and use MAUI"). 🥇

If at some point in your life; you can provide a step-by-step guide, I would greatly appreciate it, as where I'm from, there's no one who knows how to help me. ❤