UsesCleartextTraffic setting information missing

[TPJ11]

Type of issue

Missing information

Description

To configure android to accept HTTP traffic from your localhost (such as running an API from VS) you need to set the setting UsesCleartextTraffic to true the documentation does talk about network security configuration but there is a much simpler solution, add the following code at the top of the android MainApplication.cs class found under Platforms -> Android then you can call HTTP endpoints on 10.0.2.2.

#if DEBUG
[Application(UsesCleartextTraffic = true)]
#else
[Application]
#endif

Therefore unless the user has changed other settings the full class will look like

#if DEBUG
[Application(UsesCleartextTraffic = true)]
#else
[Application]
#endif
public class MainApplication : MauiApplication
{
    public MainApplication(IntPtr handle, JniHandleOwnership ownership)
        : base(handle, ownership)
    {
    }

    protected override MauiApp CreateMauiApp() => MauiProgram.CreateMauiApp();
}

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/data-cloud/local-web-services?view=net-maui-8.0

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/docs-maui/blob/main/docs/data-cloud/local-web-services.md

Document Version Independent Id

663379bf-421a-57f1-39b7-e92f830de0ed

Article author

@davidbritch

Metadata

• ID: 663379bf-421a-57f1-39b7-e92f830de0ed
• Service: dotnet-mobile
• Sub-service: dotnet-maui

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