No DLL generated for iOS project in Xamarin Forms?

Question

I am trying to create a Xamarin Forms project that is full of custom renderers. The intention is to use the DLLs created in other projects too.

When I build the project, I get projectname.dll & projectName.Droid.dll in android but I only get projectName.dll in iOS There is no projectName.iOS.dll

The build mode is debug, on simulator. What's missing?

Thanks

Answer 1

You should create an iOS library project manually, add the xamarin Forms Nuget and your custom renderers to it.

By default creating a xamarin forms project only creates a pcl, and 2 application projects (iOS and android).

Answer 2

To solve that FileIOException (dll not found issue updated in comments above) All I had to do was to create some blank Init methods in custom renderers & call them in my sample app's AppDelegate & MainActivity just after Forms.Init & before ApplicationLoad. That did the trick.

Answer 3

Perhaps someone else out there might need a solution to this as well, I also needed to implement this into a project, and it turned out that no .dll file is being generated for iOS project rather a .exe file is generated which can be imported as .NET Assembly into another Xamarin iOS project's reference just like you'd do for a dll file.

I hope this helps