Platform-specific concepts
In order to understand the memory management techniques and pitfalls, one must understand some platform-related concepts. Even though Xamarin provides an almost platform agnostic development experience, iOS and Android platforms deal with memory allocations and references slightly differently from .NET CLR and each other.
Object reference types
Referred objects can be classified according to application needs. This classification helps the garbage collector decide whether the memory allocation can be released for the referred objects.
A strong reference protects the object from being "garbage collected". A referred object is said to be strongly referenced/reachable when the class instance is directly used by the current ...
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