Bring Some C++ to Xamarin Apps
Play Share (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week)
Description
Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Essential API of the week we take a look at Share, which enables you to easily share links and text to other applications using share dialogs.
Show Notes:
- Xamarin.Essentials Documentation
- Xamarin.Essentials Getting Started Documentation
- Share Documentation
- Source Code
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The Discussion
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Adrian Nelson Hi, I've wondered if it were possible that Xamarin.Essentials could be made to work on desktop too (I like to create cross-platform apps that work on Windows, Max, Android and iOS) - obviously some of the APIs are not possible on Desktop but I would have thought that some like sharing could be achieved.
Anyway, really great work as always.
Best regards,
Adrian -
JamesMontemagno Hey there Adrian. We have an open issue to add more platform support in the future: https://github.com/xamarin/Essentials/issues/662 -
Jassim Rahma but the issue is you cannot share with images :(
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Kevin Hi JM! Loving the new Xam Essentials nuget. Quick one on Share...(on Android) sharing to Facebook doesn't seem to share any of the text. The only thing it appears to detect is the URI set in ShareTextRequest. Is this expected behaviour or a bug in the code (or a limitation of Facebook)?
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