Xamarin Introduction (Workshop)

The objective with this workshop is to serve as a quick introduction to the Xamarin world.

• What will be covered
  • Creating Xamarin Project for Android / iOS / Windows Phone (the last two depend on the development platform)
  • Using simple "shared" Portable Class Library to share code between two different projects/platforms
  • Using native UI controls (iOS/Android/Windows Phone)
  • Creating an app that actually runs!
• What won't be covered
  • Xamarin.Forms
  • Deploying apps to the store
  • Sharing ViewModel code for additional code-sharing between platforms.
  • Developing for iOS platform with a Windows machine (using a Mac Build Host)

Requirements

• Get your Mashape API Key from here (Will be used to access the API we'll use on this workshop).

• Windows PC (Windows 8.1 / 10)

  • 1 - Xamarin.Android (and Visual Studio Community 2015)

  • 2 - Xamarin Android Player or Genymotion or the default Android Emulator with some speed "boost"

  • 3 - Visual Studio Community 2015 (should already be installed due to step 1)

  • 4 - Windows Mobile SDK (Only if you didn't download it during the Visual Studio installation)

• Mac

  • 1 - Xamarin.Android Installation Guide (you can also install Xamarin iOS and Xamarin Studio in this step, so you can skip 4 and 5)

  • 2 - XCode IDE

  • 3 - Genymotion Android Emulator (or other Android Emulator)

  • 4 - Xamarin Studio IDE Download

  • 5 - Xamarin iOS Installation Guide

Workshop Guide

Track 1 - Development with Windows

You will develop a Windows Phone and Android application.
It's also possible to create an iOS Application but that would require a Mac Build Host and it's not covered in this guide.

Track 2 - Development with Mac

You will develop an iOS and Android application.