From 70fc9cfaba8dbb1fdfa1e25b2c4164164c5d99bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dean Ellis <dellis1972@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 13:56:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Test the activity-alias changes

---
 .external | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.external b/.external
index c7fab31f441..dc503a92b40 100644
--- a/.external
+++ b/.external
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DevDiv/android-platform-support:main@3b4e16f197ff3e102ffb59af0b0f056046cc7658
+DevDiv/android-platform-support:dev/dellis1972/activity-alias@af169a48c5a80b7348540a351442f959b7b008b5

From 89fca22f79c56df77451bb52ddcd10a6255fcae4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dean Ellis <dellis1972@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:36:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] ADd Unit Test

---
 .../Resources/Base/MainActivity.cs            |  1 +
 .../Tests/InstallAndRunTests.cs               | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.ProjectTools/Resources/Base/MainActivity.cs b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.ProjectTools/Resources/Base/MainActivity.cs
index 98a18bc4b55..77cc29f0185 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.ProjectTools/Resources/Base/MainActivity.cs
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.ProjectTools/Resources/Base/MainActivity.cs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 namespace ${ROOT_NAMESPACE}
 {
 	[Register ("${JAVA_PACKAGENAME}.MainActivity"), Activity (Label = "${PROJECT_NAME}", MainLauncher = true, Icon = "@drawable/icon")]
+	//${ATTRIBUTES}
 	public class MainActivity : Activity
 	{
 		//${FIELDS}
diff --git a/tests/MSBuildDeviceIntegration/Tests/InstallAndRunTests.cs b/tests/MSBuildDeviceIntegration/Tests/InstallAndRunTests.cs
index 24badd0933b..2883e771a10 100644
--- a/tests/MSBuildDeviceIntegration/Tests/InstallAndRunTests.cs
+++ b/tests/MSBuildDeviceIntegration/Tests/InstallAndRunTests.cs
@@ -46,6 +46,33 @@ public void DotNetRun ([Values (true, false)] bool isRelease)
 			Assert.IsTrue (didLaunch, "Activity should have started.");
 		}
 
+		[Test]
+		public void ActivityAliasRuns ([Values (true, false)] bool isRelease)
+		{
+			var proj = new XamarinAndroidApplicationProject {
+				IsRelease = isRelease
+			};
+			proj.AndroidManifest = proj.AndroidManifest.Replace ("</application>", @"
+<activity-alias
+			android:name="".MainActivityAlias""
+			android:enabled=""true""
+			android:icon=""@drawable/icon""
+			android:targetActivity="".MainActivity""
+			android:exported=""true"">
+			<intent-filter>
+				<action android:name=""android.intent.action.MAIN"" />
+				<category android:name=""android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"" />
+			</intent-filter>
+		</activity-alias>
+</application>");
+			proj.MainActivity = proj.DefaultMainActivity.Replace ("//${ATTRIBUTES}",$"[Register(\"{proj.PackageName}.MainActivity\")]").Replace("MainLauncher = true", "MainLauncher = false");
+			using var builder = CreateApkBuilder ();
+			Assert.IsTrue (builder.Install (proj), "Install should have succeeded.");
+			RunProjectAndAssert (proj, builder);
+			Assert.True (WaitForActivityToStart (proj.PackageName, "MainActivityAlias",
+				Path.Combine (Root, builder.ProjectDirectory, "logcat.log"), 30), "Activity MainActivityAlias should have started.");
+		}
+
 		[Test]
 		public void NativeAssemblyCacheWithSatelliteAssemblies ([Values (true, false)] bool enableMarshalMethods)
 		{

From 7d79d64af01999ecc63b1c3f3e9a6caa72f76c17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dean Ellis <dellis1972@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:32:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] update commit

---
 .external | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.external b/.external
index dc503a92b40..41ef6411e84 100644
--- a/.external
+++ b/.external
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DevDiv/android-platform-support:dev/dellis1972/activity-alias@af169a48c5a80b7348540a351442f959b7b008b5
+DevDiv/android-platform-support:main@cc26de2b33292462ab2daa70c593c78ef2a241e7