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First Mobile App with Xamarin.Forms

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First Mobile App with Xamarin.Forms Let us start with a single page application or consider it as a simple hello world application. The main point here is to learn how to create a application and test in Android emulator and iOS simulator. Create Project  : Start Visual Studio. Click on “Create new project” Select “Visual C#” on left menu and “Cross-Platform App (Xamarin.Forms)”. Change name to any name of your choice. Here I set it to HelloWorld. Now click on ”OK” button in the bottom right corner. Then in the next step select “Blank App” for now. Select required platforms you can also select all the projects. Select UI Technologies to Xamarin.Forms. Let us discuss the differences between Xamarin.Forms and Native projects in the coming tutorials. Change the code sharing strategy to .NET standard project. The difference between different code sharing strategies will be discussed in upcoming tutorials. Now click “OK” button in the botto...

Prerequisites(2)

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Prerequisites After once you have installed the Visual Studio, there are few things to be taken care of For android Usually along with Visual Studio Android SDK will also be installed that includes the latest Android platform(emulator) and SDK tools. If you want to test them on devices with old android OS you have to  install respective build tools versions and Android SDK platform versions. If you want to test them on emulators with old android OS you have to  install respective build tools versions, Android SDK platform versions and their respective Android System Images. See the following images for reference: From the above images : It is clear that we can test our app in physical devices with Android OS versions 27, 26, 25, ……. But if I want to test the app in Android Emulator, then it is possible only with version 26. If we want to test in other versions the we have to install system images of the respective OS versions. ...