Latest Contributions by CristianMadularu

Thank you. In my case I was able to work around it using dependency injection. I registered the type in the platform specific and resolved it at run time in the PCL. Thank you for your time and quick reply, Cristian ... View more

Would you agree with this post? https://xamarinhelp.com/portable-class-library-pcl-vs-shared-projects/   ... View more

The reason I am avoiding using shared is the unit testing support. I want to be able to be able to unit test as much a possible. Now, with the imminent release of .net standard 2.0, I converted my PCLs to standard, but still, I want to avoid shared for the reason mentioned above. Thanks,  Cristian PS: Sorry for the late reply. ... View more

Hi Morten,  Thank you for the quick reply. I believe that to be a severe limitation. Most large applications would not use shared projects. They would be PCL based. There are reasons for that, but, probably one of the most important one would be the better unit testing support the PCL projects offer. Also, it is also likely that potential map consumers may want to add the Esri map into their already exiting PCL based projects. If I may suggest, supporting PCL should not be complicated. Behind the scenes you would still have platform specific implementations but you would need to abstract the implementation and then have some initialization code in the platform specific project. (Similar to the way the Map is abstracted in Xamarin Forms).  In my case, after some digging, I was able to use the ArcGIS map in a project based on a PCL template using some IOT (Unity in my case) magic Thank you,  Cristian ... View more

Thank you Stuart! That was very helpful. ... View more

Thank you Stuart for the reply.  The github samples are very useful. I was already using them and they proved to be very useful for some of the other functionalities I was looking for (ex geocoding). I guess I missed the example where the map was being initialized by passing in an online URI - my bad. Regarding your reply, I had partial success. The World Street Map worked, but the OpenStreetMap did not. I would like to use the the open street map since, in addition to the streets, it also shows the actual buildings. When initializing using the OpenStreetMap address, the map looks like a grey area (with a grid). I tried zooming in/out, navigating to some test addresses, etc. in order to force a refresh and still nothing. Would you know why would that happen? I am using a fully updated Google Pixel tablet. Thank you,  Cristian ... View more