Android Xamarin App- Sign your app using a keystore in a Release Pipeline

To sign your Xamarin Android app using Visual Studio, you can use the keystore setings in the project properties. This will generate a jks file for Windows.

See Compile steps: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/deploy-test/release-prep/?tabs=windows#compile

Then continue to these steps to export the JKS file: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/deploy-test/signing/?tabs=windows

Once you export the app, you can copy the file: C:\Users\EricSchrader\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Mono for Android\Keystore\DevOps

Click Secure Files in Azure DevOps pipeline for your project:

Select your keystore file

Now you can upload the keystore file to Azure DevOps Pipeline:

Then you can update the build pipeline to use the keystore file and password (password stored in Library variable for security)

Then simply run the build and grant access to the Variables group.