Add ServiceCollection extensions for native Android and iOS projects

[Cheesebaron]

Add ServiceCollection extensions for native Android and iOS projects

[bitsandfoxes]

Hey @Cheesebaron, thanks for the feature request. That does sound interesting. Do you have an idea/snippet of what that could look like?

[Cheesebaron]

So in a couple of my Android and iOS Apps I just create a ServiceCollection like this and add dependencies to it:

var serviceCollection = new ServiceCollection();

So ideally I would just be able to add Sentry there with:

serviceCollection.AddSentry();

I had a look at what you are doing in the MAUI package for adding stuff to the service collection, I see you add:

• Logging
• Options
• Hook into lifecycle events

The last one is very interesting and not sure if that comes out of the box if you just initialize Sentry directly through SentrySdk. Will lifecycle get observed? Perhaps these are mainly to hook into MAUI specific events to know when pages/windows/shell events are triggered?

EDIT:

After digging more into the code it also seems that you have extra handling for:

• Screenshots
• Listening to network changes

[bitsandfoxes]

I see. Thanks again for your input!
We've seen an uptick in interest in mobile projects outside of MAUI. We'll have to see how we can prioritize this.

[Cheesebaron]

What I am requesting more or less what the Sentry.Xamarin project does: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-xamarin/tree/main/Src/Sentry.Xamarin just without the Xamarin.Forms or MAUI UI framework bits.

[bitsandfoxes]

I think that's a fair request but realistically speaking, we won't get to adding this anytime soon.

[Cheesebaron]

I did the porting myself here: https://github.com/Cheesebaron/sentry-dotnet-mobile (currently private), but only for iOS and Android. Let me know if you want this upstream I can invite you if you want to have a look. It has a big overlap with the MAUI package, just without all the MAUI UI framework specifics and some parts from the older Xamarin variant.

If you don't want it upstream, is it OK I package this myself and publish? Only downside is that using IConfiguration doesn't work as I don't have access to BindableSentryLoggingOptions as its visibility is internal to Sentry signed stuff.

[bitsandfoxes]

Let me know if you want this upstream I can invite you if you want to have a look.

That'd be awesome!