Succeeding with Xamarin

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Practical roadmap for sharing C# mobile code: use a layered .NET Standard library, keep UI native or Xamarin.Forms embedding for generic screens, and use MVVM + Prism for constructor injection instead of service locators. Message passing via MessagingCenter decouples Forms and native layers. Expect old phones to take 10–15 seconds to cold start unless Android AOT/linking and multi‑dex are enabled; packaging drops readable DLLs but increases APK (demo ~21 MB, Mono runtime ~10 MB) and can stretch CI builds to 80–90 minutes.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:10Big Ben
3. 1:13Filip Ekberg
4. 2:30The promise of Xamarin
5. 3:51How to succeed with Xamarin
6. 6:18The promise with Xamarin
7. 7:40The problem with sharing code
8. 8:08Device fragmentation
9. 9:25Abstraction
10. 9:50Sharing
11. 13:58Patterns
12. 14:20Why Patterns
13. 15:29Decouple
14. 16:17Platform Specific
15. 16:30NFC
16. 17:17Compiler directives
17. 18:21IoC containers
18. 19:45Service locator pattern
19. 20:09Service locator code
20. 24:46Dependencies
21. 25:23Service Locator
22. 26:04Salmon Forms
23. 28:05Salmon Embedding
24. 28:22Salmon Forms Embedding
25. 29:12iOS Forms Embedding
26. 29:30Android Forms Embedding
27. 34:18Dependency Injection
28. 35:09Messaging Center
29. 35:43View Models
30. 40:40MVVM Pattern
31. 42:08Code Example
32. 47:09Ahead of Time Compilation
33. 47:31Unhappy Customers
34. 48:39Package Selective Projects
35. 49:24APK File
36. 49:49assemblies
37. 50:36lip
38. 51:09multi decks
39. 51:37packaging
40. 52:39build
41. 53:16finding the right people
42. 53:56not to use Xamarin
43. 54:37native compiled binaries
44. 55:02justintime compilation
45. 55:30obfuscation
46. 55:53compilation
47. 56:44how to succeed
48. 57:07minimize app size
49. 57:34wrap up

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