A typical Xamarin solution structure
A Xamarin solution can be composed of different types of projects. Some of these projects are platform-specific projects and the others are shared project types or modules that make it possible to reuse code across platforms.
Figure 11: Xamarin project solution structure on Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio
Portable class libraries
Portable class libraries are the most common way of sharing code between cross-platform projects. PCLs provide a set of common reference assemblies that enable .NET libraries and binaries to be used on any .NET-based runtime or with Xamarin compilers—from phones to clients, to servers ...
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