.NET MAUI 9 Release Builds with the DataSync Client failing

[mmendoza-apa]

Hello fellow datasync devs,

I have been working with the datasync client library and it has been working great. Debug builds work great but release builds are failing as soon as I open the app. I have made plenty of release builds before introducing the data sync client and they were all working great. Since adding this library, my app no longer works in release. I do not think this is an issue with the library, that is why I have added this to discussion over an issue for this library.

How are you all going about getting your .NET MAUI releases working for release builds?

I have attempted to do a release build using the client library in my .NET MAUI app but it fails on app start. Has anyone encountered this and if so, have you found a solution.

I am using Aptabase for logging and I am getting these 2 logs when the crash happens:
00 Fatal InvalidOperationException: Model building is not supported when publishing with NativeAOT. Use a compiled model.
2

01 at Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Internal.DbContextServices.CreateModel(Boolean designTime)

Any insight/guidance around this would be very much appreciated.

I have tried the following:
https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/23653
https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/12537
https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/12537

I also stripped out a lot of my work around the datasync client library so I can test around the bare minimum. With the library, plus offline dbcontext set up and the model set up and it stil fails.

[adrianhall]

Not a MAUI person, but does this not help? https://communitytoolkit.github.io/Datasync/in-depth/client/advanced/maui-aot/

[mmendoza-apa]

Ahh, I am sorry about that @adrianhall. I totally missed this documentation.