Different required DLL between 2017 R1 and 2017 R2

[Julien]

Hi,

I use the Calendar and ListView components in my project.

When I update Telerik Xamarin from version 2017 R1 to 2017 R2, I am forced to add extra dlls for the Android project, iOS and PCL projects so they build.

The DLLs I need to add are:

• SkiaSharp.dll
• Telerik.XamarinForms.Primitives.dll
• Telerik.XamarinForms.SkiaSharp.dll

I do not have to add them in the 2017 R1 version of Telerik, and I would avoid doing it because its actually greatly enlarging the size of the distribution package.

Is this a bug ? Or are DLLs now prerequisites for any component Telerik ?

Thank you !

Best Regards

Julien.

[Lance | Manager Technical Support]

Hello Julien,

The SkiaSharp dependencies were introduced when the RadGauge was added to the components (see more about that here). If you're not using the Gauge, then you don't need the SkiaSharp libraries.

As of R2 2017 release, we introduced new separate NuGet packages so you can keep your project size as small as possible. See here and here for more useful improvements in the R2 release (for example you no longer need to declare the renderers or call TelerikForms.Init() in each platform project).

Regards,
Lance | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.
Telerik by Progress

[Lance | Manager Technical Support]

Hi Julien,

Just a quick follow up in case you've never used NuGet to install UI for Xamarin before. Go to this page in the documentation and you'll see two sets of instructions, one for Visual Studio and one for Xamarin Studio.

Regards,
Lance | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.
Telerik by Progress