.Net and Xamarin Development

As usual, the best way to learn something is to use it. Follow the official quickstart sample to develop the Hello World of Xamarin. Xmarin quickstart A few interesting tips: 1. At top right, there are a few icons. One of them can be used to switch to design view as Asp.Net UI designer: 2. In this sample, the local file operation and basic back end code are exactly the same as Asp.net. The only issue I have had is that I changed the application name from "Notes" to "Quickstart_Note" and this caused a build failure. The reason is that then namespace for the Mainpage class is Notes. The namespace has to be used in the App.xaml.cs accordingly. This is how the final app looks like in Android emulator: 3. For the quickstart step 3, SQL Lite recommended by the tutorial has been depreciated. There is an official build specially for Xamarin released by SQLite-net. There is no other issue to follow the quickstart sample. After the quick start, the fundamentals of Xamarin dev...

The official start point of Xamarin resource is Microsoft Xamarin document site: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/?WT.mc_id=docs-ch9-jamont    It is also recommended to have a look at github page for the 2020 .Net Conf: Foucus on Xamarin. A lot of Youtube videos, sample apps and keynote powerpoints can be found here: https://github.com/dotnet-presentations/dotNETConf/tree/master/2020/FocusOnXamarin/Technical Following are some interesting samples, controls etc for Xamarin Xamarin.Forms CheckBox Xamarin.Forms RadioButton Xamarin Shell is a great feature that should be checked out as well. It is a usable framework for a mobile app. Xmarin.Forms Shell Another sample for Xamarin Shell can be found here: https://jesseliberty.com/2020/03/07/xamarin-forms-shell/