Why is cleartextTrafficPermitted tag not detected when enclosed in debug-overrides tag of my Xamarin-CodePudding

I have a Xamarin.Forms application, for which I am able to debug in cleartext (http) mode, based on the inclusion of a network_security_config.xml file as follows:

<network-security-config>
   <base-config cleartextTrafficPermitted="true" />
</network-security-config>

However, if I move the cleartextTrafficPermitted setting inside of a debug-overrides tag as follows, I get the error "Cleartext HTTP traffic to MYSITE is not permitted."

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<network-security-config>
    <debug-overrides>
      <base-config cleartextTrafficPermitted="true" />
  </debug-overrides>
</network-security-config>

My application is running in debug mode. Even though app debugging was already working and mode was Debug, just in case I tried adding debuggable:true explicitly to the application tag in my AndroidManifest.xml, and have also tried adding (Debuggable = true) as a parameter in the ApplicationAttribute over my main application class declaration, but regardless of how I set the app to be debuggable, the base-config tag seems to be ignored if it's nested inside of a debug-overrides tag. Am I doing something wrong? Is there some other way to allow for HTTP to be permitted in debug mode but not in release mode?

CodePudding user response：

This likely happens because you are referring to the debug mode of Android and Xamarin doesn't use it in its debug mode.

I cannot fully confirm this, but this is the only possible reason I can think of. As Xamarin doesn't use Java virtual machine on Android to run it likely can't use debug that is intended for this virtual machine.

CodePudding user response：

android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"

put this line in application tag in manifest file.