Load T from resources Xamarin - Note: mark file build action as embedresource

LocalJsonLoader.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes;

namespace jzeferino.gist
{
    public static class LocalJsonLoader
    {
        public static T LoadJsonResource<T>(string filename)
        {
            var assembly = typeof(LocalJsonLoader).GetTypeInfo().Assembly;

            var resourceName = Array.Find(assembly.GetManifestResourceNames(), resource => resource.Contains(filename));

            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(resourceName))
            {
                throw new FileNotFoundException($"{filename} not found.");
            }

            Stream stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName);

            using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
            {
                var json = reader.ReadToEnd();
                return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(json);
            }
        }
    }
}