Uno.MvvmCross/DownloadCache

DownloadCache

The DownloadCache plugin provides a managed disk and memory cache for downloaded files - especially images.

The DownloadCache plugin is only available for iOS and Android, although others have ported this to Windows platforms too.

For the DownloadCache plugin to fully work, implementations must be registered for:

• IMvxTextSerializer
• IMvxFileStore

One relatively easiest way to register implementations for these interfaces is to load the Json and File plugins.

The most common use of the DownloadCache plugin is for downloading images using in MvxImageView in Android and iOS. This is managed automatically using the IMvxImageHelper<Bitmap> and <IMvxImageHelper<UIImage> helpers.

The caches used by these helpers are configured MvxDownloadCacheConfiguration configuration classes. The default configurations store up to 500 files for up to 7 days, and will maintain up to 4MB of up to 30 images in RAM. To override the default values, provide custom settings in GetPluginConfiguration in your Setup class.

Known issues:

• this cache is a complicated implementation, has been well tested in apps, but is poorly unit tested currently
• one user has reported MonoTouch download issues in certain network conditions - these problems seem to be related to known MonoTouch issues - see StackOverflow Q&A on this. That first StackOverflow post has a suggested workaround - overriding the IMvxHttpFileDownloader registration with an implementation which uses the UIImage.LoadFromData method.