Why is my custom ButtonRenderer not working?

Question

I\'m trying to create a custom ButtonRenderer for Xamarin.Forms. Here is a simple test I\'ve been trying to put up together following some tutorials, but I can\'s seem to ma

Answer 1

I'm still investigating on this. Your class gets shrunk because it's not statically linked in your PCL. You avoid that by giving a name to your classes like this:

[Activity(Name = "somepackage.custombuttonrenderer")]
public class CustomButtonRenderer: ButtonRenderer
{ }

If you're able to target the minimum Android version to Android 5.0 (Api 21) this problem should disappear as another version of the Dex file is used.