Fabulous: Xamarin Live Reload Support for half-elmish

[slang25]

For the "half elmish" approach of having static XAML files, but still using an elmish model, it would be very compelling to have Xamarin Live Reload support.

At the moment if I add the live reload package to this project, the ResolveAssembly task in Xamarin.Android.Common.targets fails with:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\Xamarin\Android\Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(1590,2): error : Exception while loading assemblies: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load assembly 'Xamarin.Live.Reload, Version=0.3.27.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken='. Perhaps it doesn't exist in the Mono for Android profile?
File name: 'Xamarin.Live.Reload.dll'

I think I can work around this, but then I spotted some targets in the live reload package that looks like it will only work in C# & VB projects, it tries to inject some attributes into the assembly, however I don't think F# uses the same targets (yet? see here: https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/issues/3113).

I might have a dabble with this later this week to see what I can get working.

[dsyme]

@slang25 If you can add docs for getting half-elmish to work with Live Reload that would be great

In the meantime we've added a preliminary LiveUpdate experience for Full Elmish, see https://fsprojects.github.io/Elmish.XamarinForms/tools.html

[slang25]

@dsyme Will do. I've been eagerly watching the commits for the full elmish live update, impressive stuff!

[cartermp]

Note that Live Reload has been deprecated: https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/4155#issuecomment-431596130

[slang25]

I never got around to looking at this 😞 Given it's dead, I'm closing

[dsyme]

Note that the "Live Update" support in this repo is unrelated to "Live Reload" mentioned above :)

[slang25]

Yes :) now I dislike XAML even more!