Share Images and Videos with Essentials Share in Xamarin.Forms

With the Essentials Share APIs you can easily share text, images, videos or any file from your Xamarin.Forms application to any other installed application. Think of WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, etc. In this video I will show you how to leverage the Xamarin.Essentials Share API to implement sharing like this.

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⏱ Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Sample App Outline
01:44 - Implement Sample UI
02:29 - Also works with .NET MAUI!
03:02 - Explore Share APIs
03:33 - Implement Text/URL Sharing
07:56 - Share Images and Videos
14:03 - Outro

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