Can you use Xamarin.Forms 4.0 with Shell and Prism framework

Question

Can you use Xamarin Forms 4.0 new Shell with Prism? I'm looking for examples or some documentation

Answer 1

The short answer is sort of and it depends on what from Prism you want to use. You can of course use the ViewModelLocator to inject your ViewModels, but you really don't have a way passing parameters to initialize anything. So none of the Navigation interfaces for example would work, nor would your page get the benefit of the PageBehaviorFactory applying the behaviors that we apply. Ultimately the initial implementation of Shell was completely unusable for every MVVM framework (even if you roll your own).

The Forms team though has been working with us and there is a solution on the horizon. I cannot say when exactly that will land, however in Prism terms if you look at the Shell Support issue, you'll see that it's marked for support in Prism 8.0 which is the current vNext version being worked on.

Also note that the work on this issue has been live streamed on https://twitch.tv/dansiegel and can be viewed for VOD on YouTube https://youtube.com/dansiegel