Library version 2.0 has been published. This nuget contais .Net Standard version of this FileService logic. New code at src.NetStandard. NugetID -> BiT21.FileService

Pending to update this README to reference the new code.

A simple way to create a file system sandbox where your aplication will be able to save information, Text, Objects or Byte[].

• Available on NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/BiT21.Xam.Plugin.FileService/
• Install into your PCL/netstandard project and Client projects.

Platform Support

To gain access to the FileService class use this methord.

var f = CrossFileService.Current;

Before macking any call to FileService we need to specify the sandboxtag, that will define the sandbox we will be targeting the class calls.

f.SandboxTag = "MyAplicationSandboxTag";

This tag translates to a folder on the device FileSystem.

The original design stands that the application will be working with a single sandbox. This will change in future releases.

Thefore the initialization will stand:

IFileService fileService = FileService.CrossFileService.Current;
fileService.SandboxTag = SANDBOX_TAG;
string content = "This is the content I need to save in a text file";

//Create file and save content.
await fileService.SaveTextFileAsync(content, filename);

//Read content from file
string text = await fileService.ReadTextFileAsync(filename);
Assert.AreEqual(content, text);

//Delete file from sandbox.
await fileService.DeleteFileAsync(filename);
Assert.IsFalse(await fileService.ExistFileAsync(filename));

//Delete sandbox
await fileService.DeleteSandboxAsync();
Assert.IsFalse(await fileService.ExistSandBoxAsync());

Planning to extend the plugin with

• Multi sandbox
• Encrypted storage. On Test proyect you have a sample to use FileService in combination wth BiT21.EncryptDecrypt to protect file data.

Sandbox will be created

Contributions are welcome! If you find a bug please report it and if you want a feature please report it.

If you want to contribute code please file an issue and create a branch off of the current dev branch and file a pull request.

Under MIT, see LICENSE file.