MvvmCross.Plugin.Sidebar

[Larhei]

During migrating to .Net6 and MvvmCross 9 we are facing the issue that the Sidebar Plugin was kicked out of the project.
We think it is because of the Dependency on Xamarin-Sidebar that is not ready for .Net6. In case @martijn00 would update to a compatible version... Could the Plugin be brought back?

Or does someone have an alternative approach?

[Cheesebaron]

You'd have to ask someone from Baseflow if they'd want to keep their package up to date. But I've chosen to remove it since there is no net6.0 support for in that library. Also it is not a UIKit native navigation paradigm, so I don't really want to support this.

You can always just pour in the code into your own project and have a custom presenter that can support this navigation pattern.

[martijn00]

I've released https://www.nuget.org/packages/SidebarNavigation/3.0.0 now

[Larhei]

@martijn00 Thank you!

[Larhei]

Ok @Cheesebaron... back to the initial question.
Can the Plugin be brought back?
You said: "I don't really want to support this".
Last word on this?

[martijn00]

I don't think this should be in MvvmCross. It's easy to pull it out to a new repo and release it from there.

[Larhei]

Fair

[cheasley-hub]

@Larhei, I'm currently facing a similar challenge while upgrading an old Native Xamarin iOS app to .NET 7. This involves years of missed updates. Have you had any success in creating a custom presenter for this purpose in your app?

[Larhei]

@cheasley-hub, sorry for the late reply.

I added the Source of the Plugin to my repository, upgraded the ref to SidebarNavigation V3 and fixed some bugs on my repository.
Not the preferred way to go, but for now it is working. Because of other breaking changes in MVVM I need to revisit it in the near future. But it is not at the top of my technical debt list.