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Xamarin.Forms *needs* a hot reload system

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Flutter is winning the hearts and minds of developers. I can see there is already jobs opening asking for flutter knowledge. Everywhere I read about flutter, people praise one functionality: "hot reload". I tested it and it is really nice. The thing is, flutter does not need it as much as XF. On flutter, things look the same on both devices so you do not spend so much time doing micro adjustments to the UI as on XF. The thing, I think, is that people learning need to see the changes they make to understand and learn. A person that does not know xaml will have a hard time even doing basic things look half decent. An experienced developer will have a hard time making things look exactly how he wants. It is possible but takes a lot of time.

I know about LiveXAML (http://www.livexaml.com/), I use it and it mostly works but it is not free. I know about XAMLator (https://github.com/ylatuya/XAMLator) and HotReload (https://github.com/AndreiMisiukevich/HotReload) but one only works on mac and the other I could not make work on android emulators. So, if this amazing developers are doing it, it is possible.

I think the most important thing for this feature is to be able to edit xaml on VS and see the change on emulators (android and iOS). It would be amazing if it could reload code changes too but only xaml will be a good start. It would be nice too if it could work without Visual Studio too, so I can edit .xaml files on VSCode and see the changes on my running app. This would make things so much better for experienced developers and for newcomers.

So my question is: when will Xamarin.Forms have an official hot reload system?


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