Smartassembly with Xamarin

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  Hi @hazzu84,
  
  Thanks for your post!
  
  I'm afraid we actually haven't done any testing specifically with Xamarin, and I unfortunately don't think SmartAssembly will work with Xamarin assemblies, since from what I understand, Xamarin assemblies are not built off of the full .NET framework. (SmartAssembly can only process fully managed/.NET assemblies.)
  
  Please mistake me if I am wrong though! If Xamarin assemblies are fully managed, then SmartAssembly should be able to process them, but as with any assembly, you may need to exclude some code from obfuscation. If it is fully managed and you can share your assembly, I'm happy to do some testing as well to get more detail on what works and doesn't work.

  Jessica R July 19, 2017 00:45

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  Does anyone know if SmartAssembly still won't work with Xamarin assemblies?

  erics_jca December 22, 2017 14:22

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  Hi @erics_jca!
  
  I'm afraid nothing has changed regarding this, so the previous post still applies- only if the Xamarin assembly is fully managed, then SmartAssembly can work with it.

  Jessica R December 22, 2017 16:49

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  Is this still the case?

  jayg October 18, 2019 13:42

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  @jayg It's still the case, sorry to say. SmartAssembly only works with managed code.
  

  Jessica R October 24, 2019 01:57

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  @Jessica R Has anymore testing been done with Xamarin?  I found out that the assemblies that we are interested in protecting appear to be managed as they reference mscoree.dll:
  
  

  Dump of file C:\#redacted#.Android.dll

  
  

  File Type: DLL

  
  

    Image has the following dependencies:

  
  

      mscoree.dll

  
  

    Summary

  
  

          2000 .reloc

          2000 .rsrc

         66000 .text

   
  Thanks,
  Jay

  jayg July 22, 2020 15:39

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