title: How to load content (stream or byte[]) of xamarin shared images on pcl?
body: <p>I have a xamarin forms solution with with projects PCL, Android and iOS. I have several images in the PCL project that I make a link into projects Android and iOS (drawable/resources folder). Therefore, if I want display this images in a Image control in pcl project I can just use  and works fine.</p>
  
  <p>But, I need load the content of this images into a Stream or byte[] (of course, is trivial convert from/to ) to invoke a service ahead. </p>
  
  <p>How I can accomplish this task? If there is a way in pcl project is better, but if will need code in specifics platforms, no problem.</p>
  
  <p>Note: This task would easy if we embedded the images as resources in the pcl project, but I don't want this, I don't want increase app size embedding duplicated images.</p>
  
  <p>Note: There are other "similar" questions, but loading content from embedded resources, please, this is not the case here.</p>