![]() ![]() Creating a project with the default Xamarin template Tip: If you leave your machine to download and install Xamarin, it’s worth adjusting your power settings to make sure an unattended machine doesn’t switch off in the middle of the download – like mine did the first time ( facepalm). It’s probably going to take a long time to install VS2017 with Xamarin – adding Xamarin to the base Visual Studio install makes it about 25GB bigger. With Visual Studio 2017, it’s very easy just open up the setup wizard, select the Xamarin tools (as shown below) and just wait for it to install. Installing Xamarin tools for Visual Studio 2017 So instead of writing and managing three different codebases for three different platforms, developers can just write their code once and deploy it to different app-stores. With Xamarin tools built into Visual Studio, developers can create native applications in C# for Windows, Mac and Linux devices. Before we begin – what’s Xamarin and why should I use it? If you’re on a different version of Windows, you might have different experiences to me (you can check your version by going to Windows Settings -> System -> About). You’ll know if you’re on the Creator’s Update version if your Windows build number is 1703. ![]() I use Windows 10 (and have installed the Creator’s Update) – this allows me to use Xamarin.Forms. Since I’ve recently started using Xamarin for cross platform development, I thought it would be nice to share with the community how I’ve got past some of the issues which tripped me up for a while when I was becoming familiar with it. This isn’t really a normal “getting started with Xamarin” tutorial – there’s lots of them already out there already, like this one – but hopefully anyone starting off with Xamarin will find it useful.
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