Laconic is available on NuGet

Laconic, my library for writing Xamarin.Forms apps in full MVU style in C# is available on NuGet. The package name is short and concise; it’s… laconic.

The package versions are going to match the version of the Xamarin.Forms package it is linked against. E.g. currently the most recent published version of Xamarin.Forms is 5.0.0.1487-pre1, and the Laconic package that references it is 5.0.0.1487-beta1.

If you want to try it out:

• Create a new Xamarin.Forms project
• Remove all references to Xamarin.Forms
• Add a reference to Laconic (currently dotnet add package Laconic --version 5.0.0.1487-beta1) to the shared project
• Remove all cs and xaml files from the shared project
• Add a new cs file and copy/paste the code from the example here: https://github.com/shirshov/laconic#example
• Change “C# Language Version” to “8” in the shared project
• Add using Laconic.Demo; to AppDelegate.cs and MainActivity.cs
• Run (I mean, press F5)

What’s Working?

Short answer: many things. Check the Demo and Maps.Demo apps in the project repository, check this example of a fully working app.

There’s an auto-generated file with the current status of provided bindings for classes inheriting from Xamarin.Forms.BindableObject: https://github.com/shirshov/laconic/blob/master/binding-report.md. Use it as a rough guide of what widgets are not available. The classes listed in Not Used section are probably never going to appear in Laconic: they’re either irrelevant in MVU architecture, or made obsolete by Xamarin.