is this still maintained?

[andreinitescu]

Hello,

Thanks for your great plugin. Is this plugin still being maintained?

Any plans to put it on NuGet?

Thanks.

[softlion]

you can check this updated version: https://github.com/Cheesebaron/Cheesebaron.MvxPlugins/tree/master/Settings but it is not on nuget.

[jamesmontemagno]

So Cheesebaron has one like softlion said, but I have now taken this over completely. I am no longer an employee of Ceton and now work at Xamarin, so I will be updating it and will try to make it a nuget as well.

My plans are to move namespaces and any other feedback that has been given. Is there specific functionality that you want added? I tried to make it really simple with very little amount of effort for implementing.

[andreinitescu]

Hi James,

Imho, the plugin should be able to save and load any kind of object not just built-in types like it is currently doing. Having it on NuGet is also a must in my opinion, you already plan this.

Since my comment, I made a settings service in my app with a similar interface which is saving and loading from JSON.

[softlion]

Hi James, i want to work for Xamarin too ! :)

I agree with nitescua, and i've done the same. I use BSON serialization from Json.NET PCL + my own ZIP lib (PCL compatible) to serialize/deserialize any object. Bson is binary json, it's size is much smaller.

I've created a nuget package for this project (see my pull request in the cheesebaron repo). I use it internally with my own nuget "server" folder.

What would also be nice to have is the grouping of settings, by a string key. With the ability to remove all settings from a group. But you should better stay simple as we don't want a package to include too much things.

Finally, stuart is searching for a common repo for all mvvmcross plugins. So we don't have to search the web to eventually find a plugin.

[jamesmontemagno]

I actually started with JSON and to be honest it just wasn't as nice to work with(mostly on android because you can use preference activities). Perhaps I can drop the requirement for specific types, and if the type is not specified then it serializes the object out to Json. adding in additional pre-reqs was something I didn't want to do though.

I know Cheesebaron added a lot of things for removing settings or removing all. I could move that over also. I think he doesn't have Win8 in his though which is odd.

I have never created a NuGet so I need to figure that out I guess.

[jamesmontemagno]

NuGet is now live: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Mvx.Plugins.Settings/ I also had a lot of other fixes recently as well as adding date/time

[softlion]

Cheese have you tried it ;p :)

[jamesmontemagno]

Going to mark this as closed for now. Please open new issues. I am using it in my meetup manager app and it works great on android/ios: https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/MeetupManager