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Asked: 2026-05-31T00:49:35+00:00

We’ve begun to build Cross platform Android/iOS apps , having built exclusively in MonoTouch

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We’ve begun to build Cross platform Android/iOS apps, having built exclusively in MonoTouch before. We’re evaluating MonoDroid.

Our apps need to consume JSON and we’d like to use ServiceStack. Xamarin has a ServiceStack branch which we’re using – https://github.com/xamarin/ServiceStack

We’d like to have a common project responsible for GETting and POSTing JSON. ServiceStack by Xamarin has different DLLs for Android and iOS. How do we have a single project and use ServiceStack to get at our JSON?

We’re open to other options to get at JSON in a unified way?

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  1. Editorial Team

    By and large, managed *.dll’s compiled for MonoTouch that don’t have a dependency on MonoTouch specific types are compatible with Mono for Android projects.

    ServiceStack is a great example of this. I’ve personally used it for multiple projects across the Xamarin mobile framework offerings.

    As a general rule I tend to encapsulate all invocation to my web services using a partial class with async methods, like FooProjectRestClient. And then if there ever is any sort of segmentation that needs to occur it can happen in a shared class using #if defs.

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