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Xamarin is broken, multiple issues this week 1. Code not deploying. 2. Breakpoints not being hit. 3. Debug having a cardiac arrest and stopping in the middle of nowhere, where is no code and producing errors. 4. And worst of all it has dumped all the solution files from the solution, the last back up on git did the same thing when I brought it down, but luckily the previous version didnt. I had to rewrite a load of code and do some copy and paste but I got things working again though it seems I wont get a reporting function done. One week to go.

Only two weeks to go and its one problem after another with Xamarin but that said the project is covering most of the scope agreed with Mandy last sem, I have purchases, log on, status and register working fairly well but changes on place on the API seem to lead to issues elsewhere on the API, three is good seperation on the app so that seems ok.

Time is getting tight and dev is slowing down on Xamarin which takes longer to compile as time goes on, its compile, wait and wait, get back a result, make changes on the API and then repeat, though I am making some progress it is so slow i wish I was back on windows forms.

I have just over a month left and I am lots of other stuff on and I didnt make much progress this week, i have uow of work repos for alll the tables and that is all I did this week, Xamarin is getting really flakey and I am beginning to regret using it, there is tales of woe on all the forums about it, one guy advising uninstalling windows to solve one problem, it is confusing because it doesn't always deploy to my phone when i am testing it. Many of the fixes on SO are ritualistic and I am afraid that using them will cause other damage to the project.

I have the android screens more or less done and working well enough, I might have to add more and/or remove some by the end but is testable I done some user testing in the Lib and people were able to figure out how to  use it well enough. I started building a rest service for the app but when I made requests I didn't quite get back what I expected same with updates and posts, there is  a lot of tinkering to done with the back end and it is mush harder than using mvc.

Working on the screens for Xamarin, hit some learning curve issues, but the little bit of Java I have is helping me, I am also using and starting to implement a UOW or unit of work and repository pattern for the back end. The UOW makes sure that all of a restful request is persisted or none at all helping with data integrity.