Xamarin runtime "plugins" or scripts

Question

We are designing a generic Android application using Xamarin Forms. At the same time, we need some texts that the user enters to be treated a bit differently for some of the customers, ie. run them through a custom transformation.

Instead of having to build a different version of our generic app, it would be great if we could define those transformations as an external dependency, as a pluggable "dll" or a text file with a script, maybe something like MoonSharp.

Does anyone have experience with something similar and how to achieve that in Xamarin Forms?

Answer 1

We did end up using the MoonSharp framework and the Lua scripting in two different projects, one on Xamarin, and another one on a classic windows service C# application. It was a great tool and gets the job done!