Features

There will not be any plumbing in this project. Basically, I've decided not to use any IOC container, as we proved that in the previous chapter. I would normally never go into a project without it but it serves no added learning value in reiterating it again. However, if you are interested; for Ninject, there is an implementation called Portable.Ninject that should give "joy" in Xamarin projects.

As a result of creating the project, you should have four different projects in your solution file. One for each of the different platforms and then a shared project for what is commonly shared among the other three. Typically, one will try to get as much code as possible into the shared one, but on some occasions, one has to create something platform-specific. For this project, we will only be in the shared one, which should be called Chapter8 (Portable). The portable in the name refers to a project type for portable class libraries. This is a type of class library that lets you target...