Enable AppleAppBuilder to bundle applications compiled with NativeAOT

[ivanpovazan]

Description

AppleAppBuilder build task currently only supports Mono as the default AOT compiler and runtime when creating application bundles.

Proposal

Extend AppleAppBuilder to support NativeAOT, as a second AOT compiler and runtime, when creating iOS application bundles.
This would enable building and running sample applications built with NativeAOT on iOS platforms, but also size and performance monitoring.

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Issue Details

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Description

AppleAppBuilder build task currently only supports Mono as the default AOT compiler and runtime when creating application bundles.

Proposal

Extend AppleAppBuilder to support NativeAOT, as a second AOT compiler and runtime, when creating iOS application bundles.
This would enable building and running sample applications built with NativeAOT on iOS platforms, but also size and performance monitoring.

Author:	ivanpovazan
Assignees:	ivanpovazan
Labels:	feature-request, os-ios, area-NativeAOT-coreclr
Milestone:	8.0.0

[am11]

It gets enabled when TargetPlatformIdentifier is set (not to be confused with TargetFrameworkIdentifier / TFI).

e.g. <TargetFramework>net7.0-macos</TargetFramework> is same as:

    <TargetFramework>net7.0</TargetFramework>
    <TargetPlatformIdentifier>macos</TargetPlatformIdentifier>

By setting TPI, .NET SDK imports WorkloadManifestTargetsLocator, which resolves Microsoft.macos.Sdk.net7 SDK, which further resolves Microsoft.NET.Runtime.MonoTargets.Sdk.net7 and then Xamarin.Shared.Sdk etc. Somewhere there in the SDK, we can check if '$(PublishAot)' == 'true' then e.g. skip importing WorkloadManifestTargetsLocator or something down the chain. There maybe some more changes required but that would be the starting point to ninja in the NativeAOT bits. 🥷

[ivanpovazan]

It gets enabled when TargetPlatformIdentifier is set (not to be confused with TargetFrameworkIdentifier / TFI).

e.g. <TargetFramework>net7.0-macos</TargetFramework> is same as:

    <TargetFramework>net7.0</TargetFramework>
    <TargetPlatformIdentifier>macos</TargetPlatformIdentifier>

By setting TPI, .NET SDK imports WorkloadManifestTargetsLocator, which resolves Microsoft.macos.Sdk.net7 SDK, which further resolves Microsoft.NET.Runtime.MonoTargets.Sdk.net7 and then Xamarin.Shared.Sdk etc. Somewhere there in the SDK, we can check if '$(PublishAot)' == 'true' then e.g. skip importing WorkloadManifestTargetsLocator or something down the chain. There maybe some more changes required but that would be the starting point to ninja in the NativeAOT bits. 🥷

^ @kotlarmilos I believe this would contribute to your SDK integration work