Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development

Simplifying dependency injection

Dependency injection at first seems like a complex topic, but for the most part it is a simple concept. It is a design pattern aimed at making your code within your applications more flexible so that you can swap out certain functionality when needed. The idea builds around setting up dependencies between classes in an application so that each class only interacts with an interface or base/abstract class. This gives you the freedom to override different methods on each platform when you need to fill in native functionality.

The concept originated from the SOLID object-oriented design principles, which is a set of rules you might want to research if you are interested in software architecture. There is a good article ...