MvvmCross actual SQLite plugin to use in .NET Standard project

Question

I am developing an app with .NET Standard 2.0 project as core project, so bumped into the fact, that I am not sure how I should (can) handle the famous easy-to-access-and-setup approach with MvvmCross .

Search for Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.Sqlite plugin in Nuget doesn't return anything (apparently it's been a while and it's not supported).

SQLite-PCL doesn't seem like sound .NET Standard -ish, plus there is a whole bunch of different packages with similar name (and with no any close reference to MvvmCross actually) appear.

There is also a reference to sqlite-pcl-net plugin in release notes for MvvmCross 5, but it also "doesn't smell" Mvx -y.

So, what's going on with MvvmCross SQLite these days? What should I use? Any ideas?

Answer 1

There used to be an official MvvmCross Plugin for SQLite but it was dropped sometime around early 2017 because the plugin was redundant. SQLite is probably the most popular database used in MvvmCross applications, but there is nothing in MvvmCross requiring this. You are still free to use Realm, Entity Framework Core, etc.

You should be using the praeclarum/sqlite-net version of SQLite since Android 7.0. Here is the NuGet feed for the package. This version supports .NET Standard and PCL. Other forks are not maintained as much, or stopped working reliably on Android due to the changes to the way SQLite was changed in Android 7.0.

I've also recently provided another answer to a question asking how to add SQLite to an MvvmCross application since the plugin was removed. I provided some sample code for Android in the answer . The old MvvmCross SQLite Plugin source code is also still available.