I began to use Dotfuscator Community (fresh download) with Visual Studio 2019 integration as part of my Xamarin.Forms build process.
I did the steps listed under: preemptive
When I build, I get the correct build messages from Dotfuscator.
My problem is, that
(*) APK folders: There are two folders Visual Studio places APKs from the same build config:
C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Mono for Android\Archives\2019-08-27\Ch9.Android 8-27-19 6.00 PM.apkarchive
c:\PROG\Ch9\Ch9\Ch9.Android\bin\DotfuscatedGPlayRelease\
c:\PROG\Ch9\Ch9\Ch9.Android\bin\DotfuscatedGPlayRelease\
folder_EDIT 2019.08.28____________________
I have tried to run the Dotfuscator prepared build config on Visual Studio 2017 (15.9.14, yes that's an older one) and can confirm, that the APK package prepared by the "Archive" command contains the dotfuscated assemblies. So at this point it seems that the archive process of VS19 circumvents the dotfuscated assemblies while VS17 works correctly in this regard
The faulty behavior has been corrected, see comment section.