when to release objects in mono touch / mvvmcross

Question

We are implementing an app which seems to have major memory leaks. For an example we have a view with its corrosponding viewmodel that is registered 38 times in the mono pro

Answer 1

A good rule is that containees that are added to NSObject-based classes should only reference containers using WeakReference objects.

Like this:

 // MyView is a UIView, which is an NSObject, so the rule will apply here
 class MyView : UIView {
       WeakReference myController;

       public MyView (RectangleF bounds, UIViewController myContainer) 
           : base (bounds) {
           this.myController = myContainer;
       }
 }