Summary

Over the past several releases we have delivered incremental improvements to the developer inner loop experience, tooling reliability, and closing the gaps on missing SDK features in Xamarin.Forms that have been frustrating customers. We have been hindered from making significant advancements in terms of app performance by the original platform renderer design and reliance upon reflection during initialization, so we will be refactoring the Xamarin.Forms native control architecture to eliminate view wrapping. Additionally, using the new project system, we will enable a single project architecture for Xamarin.Forms apps that makes sharing resources across target platforms easier.

Note: These experiences are proposed for .NET 6 and not yet committed.

User Stories

• Xamarin developers can use C# Hot Reload while their app is running #13 Xamarin developers can use C# Hot Reload while their app is running (P0)
• Xamarin developers can use XAML Hot Reload to modify their apps UI at runtime #19 Xamarin developers can use XAML Hot Reload to modify their apps UI at runtime (P0)
• Xamarin developers have faster build and deploy times with Hot Restart #14 Xamarin developers have faster build and deploy times with Hot Restart (P1)