PhoneticMatchin Xamarin.Forms

[nielscup]

I was trying to use this package in on of our Xamarin.Forms projects, but I get build errors:

On Windows (building Android app):

1. EnPhoneticFuzzyMatcher not found
2. The Type or namespace "PhoneticMatching" does not exist

On Mac (building iOS app)

1. Same as above
2. Error MSB4236: The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found.

The packages are added correctly in all packages, without error or warnings. I have .Net Core 2.1.700 installed. If I add the packages to a Console app (.NET Core) everything works as expected.

Any ideas?

[Mmdixon]

Hey @nielscup, I'm not too sure on those particular errors, but the nuget package adds the phonetic matching as a native dependency that only currently builds runtimes for linux-x64, osx-x64, win-x64.

So it would be missing the runtimes for android and iOS.

[dommorin]

Hi @nielscup,
Currently, PhoneticMatching only support the three platforms mentioned above. It seems we would need to change the target of the .NET wrapper (/src/cs/Microsoft.PhoneticMatching) to ".NET standard". .NET Core is not supported on Xamarin (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cesardelatorre/net-core-1-0-net-framework-xamarin-the-whatand-when-to-use-it/)
Then you'd need to build the native maluuba library into platform-specific libraries and rebuild the nuget package. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/cross-platform/cpp/)

[nielscup]

Thanks, sounds like a lot of work for now, I will try a different lib first.