i have a vm on which i installed the lastest version of microsoft visual studio (16.7.3). this machine is intended to be used as a build-agent for azure devops pipelines.
i tried the following. opened visual studio, download and open the project source, build (releasebuild) the project, archive and sign the apk and install it on the target device (android 7.0) --> this was successful. the app works as expected.
i also installed the build-agent-package (vsts-agent-win-x64-2.170.1.zip) on this machine. i configured it and it was succesfully registered at the azure devops site.
when i run a build pipeline targetting the same project (releasebuild), the agent generates and signs the apk-package. this apk-package installs on the target device but the app does not start. this means: no error messages, only a white screen.
i compared the two apks, they differ slightly, the inner folder structure is equal, but some files have different sizes.
this test runs against the azure devops server 2020 rc2. but i have the same issue using the tfs 2018 and the corresponding build agent.
could anyone give me some hints how to research this issue?
many thanks in advance
keek