Xamarin Blueprints

Implementing native setup requirements for SQLite

Our next step is to add the final setup requirements. Each device platform has a specific framework that it must use when setting up the connection to the local database. This means we are going to add another dependency-injected interface to set these native side requirements.

Add a new file called ISqliteSetup.cs to the Storage folder and implement the following:

public interface ISQLiteSetup
    {
       string DatabasePath { get; set; }
       ISQLitePlatform Platform { get; set; }
    }

Before we implement this class in the platform projects, we need to add the following SQLite NuGet packages for all platform projects:

• SQLite.Net.Async-PCL
• SQLite.Net.Core-PCL
• SQLite.Net-PCL

Now let's turn our attention to the iOS project. ...