Whenever I start a project it happens to me that some of the added Nuget don't work like they should, most often because I forgot some initialization. As a aid to memory I want to collect here the necessary stept you need to do to get a component working.
If you have more components that need special handling, please add a comment and I will add them to the page.
Acr.UserDialogs
Has also to be added to all platform projects
Android:
UserDialogs.Init(this);
OR UserDialogs.Init(() => provide your own top level activity provider)
OR MvvmCross - UserDialogs.Init(() => Mvx.Resolve<IMvxTopActivity>().Activity)
OR Xamarin.Forms - UserDialogs.Init(() => (Activity)Forms.Context)iOS and Windows:
Nothing to do
FFImageLoading
Has also to be added to all platform projects
You must add this line to your platform specific project (AppDelegate.cs, MainActivity.cs, etc) before you use FFImageLoading:
CachedImageRenderer.Init();
HockeyApp
Has to be added to platform projects
You must add this line to your platform specific project (AppDelegate.cs, MainActivity.cs, etc)
Android:
CrashManager.Register(this, "YourAppID");As default HockeyApp add android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE to your AndroidManifest.xml. You only need this if you want to use the inapp udate mechanism. Here is how to remove it.
iOS:
var manager = BITHockeyManager.SharedHockeyManager;
manager.Configure("bfaf091d8f524130b49aaa77cfc36485");
manager.StartManager();
SlideOverKit
iOS:
SlideOverKit.iOS.SlideOverKit.Init();
var mc = new MenuContainerPageiOSRenderer();
The second line is necessary because somehow the iOS linker removes otherwise the renderer. Strangely if you deploy to a iPhone5 it works without that.
XamSVG
Be sure to add this lines in the Assembly that contains the SVG images as embedded resources (here the Assembly that contains the App class):
var assembly = typeof(App).GetTypeInfo().Assembly;
XamSvg.Shared.Config.ResourceAssembly = assembly;
iOS:
SvgImageRenderer.InitializeForms();