Live.Forms.iOS

Xamarin.Forms live XAML reloading (iOS only)

Available on NuGet. You will need to install this package in your Forms PCL project as well as your main iOS project.

Currently this is a work in progress. The idea is simple: iOS apps can break out of the simulator and watch files on your machine. We can watch XAML files and reload when you save (live at runtime).

So for example, you have a page MainPage.xaml.cs:

using Live.Forms;

class MainPage : ContentPage
{
    public MainPage()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        //Here is where the magic happens
        this.Watch();
    }
}

Only other setup in is your AppDelegate.cs

public override bool FinishedLaunching(UIApplication app, NSDictionary options)
{
    this.Configure("/path/to/your/folder/");

    global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init();

    LoadApplication(new Live.Forms.Sample.App());

    return base.FinishedLaunching(app, options);
}

From here you can modify your XAML in MainPage.xaml and see changes reload live.

//TODO:

• Need to eliminate need for this.Configure("/path/to/your/folder/") in iOS project, I think this will require MSBuild trickery to figure out the path to your csproj at runtime in the iOS simulator.
• Look at using Fody potentially