Hello Fabian,

May I know why you need the Timer class from Xamarin.Forms assembly? The PCL and System.Tasks already includes full support for threading and timer. It's not necessary to use Xamarin.Forms just to use the Timer class.

Note that if you have installed Microsoft BCL extension (which is done by default if you created a new business project using Crosslight Project Wizard), you can access the tasks-related class from TaskEx in System.Threading.Tasks namespace. For the Timer class, it should be available in System.Threading namespace.

Hope this helps.

Hello,

if the "normal" timer is working on every device, I have not problem with it. But it would be a killer if there are problems with Android and iOS. Even if there is a problem on some Android or iOS devices.

Xamarin.Forms is tested and if there is a problem I can ask Xamarin to fix it. System.Threading will probably not be fixed for Android. That's why I would prefer Xamarin.Forms.

Xamarin.Forms is even much more than just a timer. It would be great if Crosslight could use it. Even with the Enterprise Framework. It should not be a Crosslight OR Xamarin.Forms decision. They should work together like you could see with the MVVM Light Toolkit.

Do you have any plans for that?

Kind regards,

Fabian

Hello Fabian,

The standard Timer implementation should work fine and reliable across all supported platforms. In essence, the Mono implementationof .NET BCL has reached maturity and it's used heavily as the foundation for Xamarin platforms. Furthermore, Mono is fully managedby Xamarin, so you don't need to worry about the issues in the franework level.

In most cases, we've found that standard Timer works well, so we haven't seen any needs why we should invent one. If you believe we should implement a better Timer with richer functionality, please create a feature request and explain the desired features and behaviors in details. Creating a feature request is similar with creating a new forum post, just change the type to "Feature Request" in the type selection of the form.

Hope this helps.

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