[Community Toolkit] Android Bug: "ReferencePath" does not define a value for metadata "CopyLocal" - Any thoughts or solutions? about stride HOT 5 OPEN

The "CopyLocal" bug is a engine/build bug.

This targets file (Stride.Core.PostSettings.Dependencies.targets) was changed from "CopyLocal" to "ReferencePath.CopyLocal"

However, my understanding is this targets file (Stride.Core.targets) did not sync those changes

As per the note directly above, it says "Important: Please keep in sync with Stride.Core.PostSettings.Dependencies.Targets"
however I don't know the full extent of what needs to be sync'd (eg. just change CopyLocal to ReferencePath.CopyLocal & ReferenceDependencyPaths.CopyLocal or maybe copy-paste all six lines?)

For an immediate workaround:

Double clicking on those errors will open the targets file from the nuget package, then change the first %(CopyLocal) to %(ReferencePath.CopyLocal) and the second to %(ReferenceDependencyPaths.CopyLocal)
ie. the changes should look like from

<_StrideDepsFile Include="@(ReferencePath->'%(RootDir)%(Directory)%(Filename).ssdeps')" Condition="'%(CopyLocal)' != 'false' And Exists('%(RootDir)%(Directory)%(Filename).ssdeps')"/>
<_StrideDepsFile Include="@(ReferenceDependencyPaths->'%(RootDir)%(Directory)%(Filename).ssdeps')" Condition="'%(CopyLocal)' != 'false' And Exists('%(RootDir)%(Directory)%(Filename).ssdeps')"/>

to

<_StrideDepsFile Include="@(ReferencePath->'%(RootDir)%(Directory)%(Filename).ssdeps')" Condition="'%(ReferencePath.CopyLocal)' != 'false' And Exists('%(RootDir)%(Directory)%(Filename).ssdeps')"/>
<_StrideDepsFile Include="@(ReferenceDependencyPaths->'%(RootDir)%(Directory)%(Filename).ssdeps')" Condition="'%(ReferenceDependencyPaths.CopyLocal)' != 'false' And Exists('%(RootDir)%(Directory)%(Filename).ssdeps')"/>

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Nice work @Basewq! Are you working on a PR for this? If not I can create one.

I'm not, feel free to make one.

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My experience with Stride has been purely Desktop but I did get a working version running in Android with just Stride a while ago.
Creating a Android template project provides the following csproj file, maybe it will provide some usefull info?

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>net8.0-android</TargetFramework>
    <SupportedOSPlatformVersion>21</SupportedOSPlatformVersion>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <RootNamespace>MyGame3</RootNamespace>

    <OutputPath>..\Bin\Android\$(Configuration)\</OutputPath>
    <AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>false</AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>

    <ApplicationId>MyGame3</ApplicationId>
    <ApplicationVersion>1</ApplicationVersion>
    <ApplicationDisplayVersion>1.0</ApplicationDisplayVersion>
	  
    <!-- Force msbuild to check to rebuild this assembly instead of letting VS IDE guess -->
    <DisableFastUpToDateCheck>true</DisableFastUpToDateCheck>

    <!-- Use AssemblyName rather than RootNamespace for Resource class otherwise it might clash between some assemblies (i.e. MyGame and MyGame.Android) -->
    <AndroidResgenNamespace>$(AssemblyName)</AndroidResgenNamespace>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <ProjectReference Include="..\MyGame3\MyGame3.csproj" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

@VaclavElias would you have any thoughts on why just adding the toolkit would introduce this dependancy? I can try to create an android example when I have time after work, I'm assuming its just some config issues since I dont think this should cause any new issues Stride didnt already have.

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I have no idea but toolkit is not using a regular Stride project configuration file, that means, Stride will skip certain if conditions in the Stride code base, which might initiliaze certain things? I had some problem with Bepu Physics (or Bullet), where I had to set something through the code related to Physics to access and set certain things because code only is not using configuarion file (at the moment).

If it is this case, it might be easy to find out, but one would need to debug Stride code with the example above and then it might be easty to initilize whatever is missing manually or we would need to put our heads together and find out what needs to be done in Stride code base itself :)

Toolkit, code only part is still trying to figure out, what needs to be initiliazed so all works the same like from a regular Stride project 🤣. And it started from nothing and adding whatever is needed, whatever we find on the way..

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Nice work @Basewq! Are you working on a PR for this? If not I can create one.

As per the note directly above, it says "Important: Please keep in sync with Stride.Core.PostSettings.Dependencies.Targets"
however I don't know the full extent of what needs to be sync'd (eg. just change CopyLocal to ReferencePath.CopyLocal & ReferenceDependencyPaths.CopyLocal or maybe copy-paste all six lines?)

Tagging @xen2 because this change was made in PR #1616, how in sync do we need to keep the two files?

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