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Xamarin Blueprints

You're reading from   Xamarin Blueprints Leverage the power of Xamarin to create stunning cross-platform and native apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887444
Length 516 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Williams Michael Williams
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Gallery Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a SpeechTalk Application 3. Building a GPS Locator Application 4. Building an Audio Player Application 5. Building a Stocklist Application 6. Building a Chat Application 7. Building a File Storage Application 8. Building a Camera Application

Implementing cross-platform logging

Now that we have our IoC container, we are going to use dependency injection for logging. Adding customized logging features in cross-platform applications is very useful for tracking operations between all of the different projects. The first step is to add a new folder called Logging, add a new file called ILogger.cs, and implement the following:

public interface ILogger 
    { 
        #region Methods
        void WriteLine(string message);
        void WriteLineTime(string message, params object[] args);
        #endregion 
    }

For this example, our logger is going to use the standard Debug console from System.Diagnostics with iOS, but in Android we are going to use the extensive logging functionality provided by Android.

Now let's add the Logging folder in both iOS and Android and implement the following:

public class LoggeriOS : ILogger 
    { 
        #region Public Methods
        public void WriteLine(string text) 
        { 
            Debug...
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