Tips & Tricks on Speeding the Xamarin Development Process | WillowTree

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Perplexed, I tried invoking MSBuild directly from the command line and found that compilation was significantly faster than Visual Studio. A subsequent build and deploy cycle after changing a single string literal took only 16 seconds, a decrease of over 96% from Visual Studio. In order to attach the debugger, Visual Studio Mac requires the entire app to be recompiled. Xambuild allows you to build and deploy your project with a simple ./xambuild.py buildAndDeploy instead of requiring that you pass flags and paths to MSBuild. Being able to run a single nuget restore command for your Android, iOS, and data access layer subprojects can save time and confusion when cloning your project or updating dependencies.

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