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Managing app Resources |
This article links to various guides that describe how to manage app resources for a variety of platforms in Visual Studio for Mac |
heiligerdankgesang |
dominicn |
05/06/2018 |
61EAAB8F-3C32-4574-924F-CFC616604089 |
overview |
App resource files, such as images, text files, and audio files, are necessary to your application but aren't compiled with the application. Each platform supported by Visual Studio for Mac handles these resources in different ways, as explained in the following guides:
Xamarin.Forms code runs on multiple platforms - each of which has its own filesystem and each file system dictates how to read and write to files. In Xamarin.Forms you can manage app resources by using the native file APIs on each platform, or by adding files as embedded resources.