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tl;dr - I have no intention of rewriting AtraCore for Android 1.5.6. For technical reasons, it's very hard to do right.
Hi! With the recent release of SMAPI 3.18.3 on mobile, I've been getting an influx of queries about porting AtraCore to mobile. Unfortunately, for technical reasons, it's very hard to do this correctly.
Stardew on PC runs off a framework known as Net 5.0. On mobile, it runs off Xamarin, which is close to but not quite the same as Net 5.0, and quite a number of small details are not the same. Methods I expect to exist don't, some methods have slightly different behavior, and on and on. In order to properly port AtraCore to Android, I would need to set up an android development environment and carefully check over every line of code.
One...