...so we went and picked up a brand new iPad Mini 2, and sure enough, the app crashes. Runs fine on all other iOS devices as far as we know.
So, I set up the new device on my developer account, got it all prepped and ready, built a debug version of the app, the debugger starts up, and the app doesn't even get as far as the released version does before it dies a horrible death (it complained reflection service failed asking for an interface, DependencyService.Get<...>(), but don't know if that's legit or not ). Switch devices, run the debug version, it goes just fine.
Don't know if it is because it is a brand new device, and something is missing from it...
Don't know if it is the particular hardware inside the iPad Mini 2...
But, I'm at a loss here as to how to proceed so I can even start to figure this out. I was able to create a default single view app project in XCode and it ran on the iPad Mini 2 just fine (not that it did anything, but just whatever default project code does).
Please help!