Native Xamarin: When Xplat is not enough

XPlat is great! Xamarin.Forms, Essentials, and all the Plugins make the reality of shared code very real! However, sometimes you still need to go deeper into native. In this talk, we look at Dependency Services, Custom Renderers, and Bindings to iOS and Android native libraries.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyqxScrnJKw
Code: https://github.com/Redth/Talks/tree/master/2019.11.12-Xamarin.Native.When.Xplat.is.Not.Enough

Transcript

1. @redth Me (note: artist’s rendering ^ not actual photo!)
2. Native Xamarin the (xplat) world is not enough
3. Forms, Essentials, Plugins… … all great, fam! BUT….
4. Forms, Essentials, Plugins… … all great, fam! BUT….
5. BUT…. … all great, fam! Forms, Essentials, Plugins…
6. BUT…. … all great, fam! Forms, Essentials, Plugins…
7. BUT…. … all great, fam! Forms, Essentials, Plugins…
8. Sometimes, it’s not enough •api’s without an available abstraction •calling platform specific code from shared •integrating existing native libraries / sdk’s •doing something non-standard (^ you might be doing it wrong!)
9. dependency services custom renderers native bindings
10. To the code!