how to edit the info.plist in visual studio?

Question

I need to add keys to the info plist but there is no way to open the file for editing. The xamarin docs state that there should be 3 tabs , one of them being source, which let me manually add keys. Where is that tab?

Answer 1

In visual studio 2017 for Windows

1. Right click on Info.plist and select "Open With"

   

2. Select "Generic Plist Editor" from the programs list

   

3. Can add/edit keys

   

Answer 2

You get the 3 tabs when you are editing the info.Plist in the Xamarin Studio. Below is the screen shot from mac.

Here is the source tab in which you could manually add keys and it would be converted to corresponding tags.

There is no problem in manually editing the info.Plist manually by using a text editor of your choice.

Answer 3

In Visual Studio at the time being you can open info.plist with any editor and add your keys between the <dict> </dict> tags. An example for camera and gallery permisions:

...
<dict>
...
    <key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
    <string>Message for permission to access camera</string>
    <key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key>
    <string>Message for permission to access gallery</string>
...
</dict>
...

More permissions and details here https://blog.xamarin.com/new-ios-10-privacy-permission-settings/