Android projects in Aspire

[Juan Francisco (JuanFcoMiranda)]

Is it possible to run native android projects developed in Kotlin within Aspire?

Greetings.

[Artpupser (Artpupser)]

Hi Juan Francisco (@JuanFcoMiranda),

Not natively. Aspire is designed for orchestrating server-side distributed services - it has no support for Android/Kotlin projects out of the box.

That said, there are two practical approaches depending on your goal:

If you want to run your backend + see it in the dashboard - just add your .NET backend services to Aspire as usual. Your Android app connects to them normally via HTTP, no Aspire integration needed on the Android side.

If you want the Android emulator to appear as a resource in the AppHost - you can wrap it with builder.AddExecutable(...) to launch the emulator or a Gradle task as a process:

builder.AddExecutable("android-app", "gradlew", workingDirectory: "../MyAndroidApp", "assembleDebug");

This is a hack more than a supported pattern, but it lets you see the process in the dashboard and have it start alongside your other resources.

[David Fowler (davidfowl)]

I'm not sure its a hack, the maui integration does exactly this.