Which IoC continer to use in cross-platform (Xamar

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I'm building a cross-platform application for Windows, OSX, iOS, Windows Mobile, Android and web in ASP.NET. For every client I use C# (I'm using Xamarin). Everything in single VS solution. My core code (domain) is in Class Library (portable), so it can be used in every UI (Client).

I want to use IoC container in that project and here is my problem: I don't know whether IoC that I'll pick, will work in every Client. I know that for example Ninject doesn't work in portable Class Library - there is Ninject.Portable for such project. That made me thinking, it's possible that IoC which I will pick will not work in one of my Clients which will be bad.

So, my question is: Which IoC containers can be used in portable class libraries and in every client (UI) made in Visual Studio 2015?

I was interested in Simple Injector, but now I have these doubts.

Answer 1

There is an IoC container which works with Xamarin called SystemDot. It's on nuget.

Answer 2

I have written a small abstraction layer on IoC containers and plugins for containers that work with Xamarin. They are available on NuGet:

https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=xlabs.ioc

Tested containers (unit tests are in GitHub):

• Autofac
• Ninject
• SimpleInjector
• TinyIOC
• Unity

Matt Whetton has written an excellent guide on how to use them.