I've been developing an android app for the last year or so in android studio. It has been in the play store since October and quite a few people are using it.
I have received many requests to create the same app for iOS and so after a lot of research I've settled on xamarin forms as it will be easier to code (as I'm familiar with c# and xaml) and less work to maintain the app for both platforms at the same time (even though it will take a while to port the code over).
The android app is using sqlite for data persistency and the xamarin version will do the same.
My question is, how could I port the sqlite databases of existing users to the new app once it is released? Is there a way to define the table/column names the same as I have set them in the android studio version?
Currently the app has a feature to export the database to the Downloads folder and the xamarin.forms app will import it from there.
I haven't seen anyone in any tutorial explicitly define the table and column names in their xamarin.forms sqlite implementation so I'm a bit worried to take the leap.
Is there a way to ensure that existing databases will work out of the box once imported in the xamarin.forms app? If not, could someone please point me towards a piece of code that will migrate data from one dB to another?
Thank you in advance for your time.
Regards