visual studio - How to decompile DLL within an AAB bundle created in Xamarin

Question

I use Visual Studio 2019 with Xamarin develop a cross-platform (Android and iOS) app. I use Dotfuscator to obfuscate the build code for releases.

When archiving the app for release I confirm the success of Dotfuscator's obfuscation by unzipping the resultant APK, finding the app's main DLL, and dropping this into JustDecompile, where I can see the obfuscated code - which has worked fine as a process up to now.

However the Play Store is removing support for APK files this year, so I have moved to building AAB files, which are their new standard. The problem is my previous method of decompiling one of these is no longer valid; the app's main DLL is no longer in the correct format to be open-able by JustDecompile, with the following error message:

JustDecompile supports only valid CLR assemblies.

What should my new procedure be for decompiling an AAB, to get access to a proper app DLL to confirm the obfuscation has run?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65887171/how-to-decompile-dll-within-an-aab-bundle-created-in-xamarin

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