Printing from a Xamarin.Forms app

Question

I'm all new to Xamarin and I'm currently working on a sample or a "prove of concept" app using Xamarin.Forms.

I'm supposed to perform a print task from this app though I'm not at this point sure what to print yet (the screen, content of a label, a file etc.).

Either way, what is the easiest way to print from a Xamarin.Forms app? (current target is primarily Android 4.4+).

I hope this isn't too complicated :)

EDIT:

Ok let me just update this post as the original text might be a bit ambitious/vague.

I have a Xamarin.Forms project (+ an Android part) and I have some HTML available in the XF part of the project that I need to get into a WebView and print it. From what I understand, the thing with the WebView has to be done on the Android part of the project due to the fact that this is where the printing will be handled. I was hoping this could be done from code since I don't really need to display the WebView, just print it's content. The Android part of the project has only the MainActivity and no layouts or XAML files. I don't know where to add the WebView or how to access it (other than DependecyService seems to be a buzz word here) so I'm kinda stuck here.

I'm thinking that this task should be rather trivial to someone with a little more Xamarin experience than me.

Answer 1

Every platform XF supports has it's own mechanism for printing. XF does not provide any abstractions for printing in a cross-platform manner. You will need to write printing logic for each layer and expose it to XF using DependencyService (or some other DI engine).