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Support for this property was added in .NET 9.

## AndroidInstrumentation

A string property that specifies the Android
[instrumentation](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Instrumentation)
runner class name to use when launching the application via `dotnet run`.

When [`$(EnableMSTestRunner)`](#enablemstestrunner) is `true` and this property
is not set, the instrumentation runner class name is automatically resolved from
the generated `AndroidManifest.xml` in the intermediate output.

Introduced in .NET 11.

## AndroidJavadocVerbosity

Specifies how "verbose"
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This property is ignored unless the
[`$(AotAssemblies)`](#aotassemblies) MSBuild property is `True`.

## EnableMSTestRunner

A boolean property that enables the
[MSTest runner](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/testing/unit-testing-mstest-running-tests)
for Android test projects. When set to `true`, `dotnet run` will launch the
application via `am instrument` instead of `am start`, allowing test results
to be reported through Android's instrumentation protocol.

This property is `False` by default.

Introduced in .NET 11.

## EnableProguard

A boolean property that determines
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