Setting up mobile projects

Now we move back to the mobile side; in our mobile projects we are going to be setting up SignalR clients on both Android and iOS natively. We will also be creating a presenter layer to share the UI logic between both native platforms. Open up Xamarin Studio and create a new shared project called Chat.Common; inside this project add two empty folders called Model and Presenter.

We then want to create a single view iOS application, a general Android application and a shared project called Chat.ServiceAccess. Our project structure will look like this:

Creating the SignalRClient

We are going to start implementing a new class called SignalRClient. This will sit in the service access layer, the shared project called Chat.ServiceAccess. Create a new file called SignalRClient.cs, and implement the following:

public class SignalRClient
     {
         private readonly HubConnection _connection;
         private readonly IHubProxy _proxy;
         public...