In my previous post, I talked about using the Camera with Forms-based applications. In this post I explain how to save and then use the photos you take.
Saving The Photo
Once we take the photo, the first task is to save it. I chose to save the photo as a file on disk, with the name of the file created as #.jpg where # is the ID of the associated item.
To do this, I want my Xamarin Forms page to talk to a platform specific method (saving is different on each platform).
The easiest way to accomplish this, is to use the DependencyService. Here’s how. First you create an interface in your core project. I called mine IPicture and gave it two methods…
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