[Bug] [Android] App fails to build - Static interface methods are only supported starting with Android N (androidx.browser.trusted.TrustedWebActivityDisplayMode)

[MitchBomcanhao]

Description

When updating from 1.5.x to 1.6 our android app no longer builds, failing with the following message.
This seems related to Pull request Updated Xamarin.AndroidX.Browser to 1.3.0 #1585
I don't have a repro project yet. Anyone had a similar issue?

C:\Users\USER\.nuget\packages\xamarin.google.guava.listenablefuture\1.0.0.2\buildTransitive\monoandroid50\guava-listenablefuture.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\100\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\101\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\102\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\103\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\104\jl\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\105\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\106\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\107\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\108\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\109\jl\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\110\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\111\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\112\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\113\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\114\jl\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\115\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\116\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\117\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\118\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\119\jl\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\120\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\121\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\122\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\123\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\124\jl\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\125\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\126\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\127\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\129\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\130\jl\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\131\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\132\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\133\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\134\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\135\jl\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\136\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\137\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\138\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\139\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\140\jl\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\141\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\142\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\143\jl\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\2\jl\formsviewgroup.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\22\jl\bin\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\3\jl\bin\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\5\jl\bin\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\6\jl\bin\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\65\jl\bin\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\80\jl\bin\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\81\jl\bin\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\82\jl\bin\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\84\jl\auto-value-annotations.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\85\jl\dagger.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\91\jl\javax-inject.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\92\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\93\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\94\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\95\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\96\jl\classes.jar 
obj\Debug\100\lp\97\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\98\jl\classes.jar obj\Debug\100\lp\99\jl\classes.jar  (TaskId:176)
6>D8 : error : Static interface methods are only supported starting with Android N (--min-api 24): androidx.browser.trusted.TrustedWebActivityDisplayMode androidx.browser.trusted.TrustedWebActivityDisplayMode.fromBundle(android.os.Bundle)
6>  Compilation failed (TaskId:176)

Basic Information

• Version with issue: 1.6.0
• Last known good version: 1.5.3.2
• IDE: VS 16.8.1
• Platform Target Frameworks:
  • Android: Minimum API 21 // Target API 29

[MitchBomcanhao]

humm, I get the same issue when putting essentials 1.5.3 back and then updating xamarin forms to 5.0 - it also brings in androidx.browser 1.3.0.
I'm closing this issue here, but if someone has any idea of how to solve it, feel free to share...

[MitchBomcanhao]

picked this up again today, and I believe I've found where it went wrong for me.
a couple of years ago we had set up D8 with no-desugaring because we were getting a warning from AppCenter that indicated its necessity.
removing the no-desugaring option has stopped the build failures, and I'm not seeing any AppCenter warnings (using a much newer version of appcenter) so it all seems happy now.