Xamarin.Forms Tutorial developing the tools needed for xamarin.forms applications

tools needed to develop xamarin.forms applications

The Xamarin.Forms tutorial developed the tools needed for the Xamarin.Forms application, and May 8, 2014 introduced xamarin.forms in Xamrin 3 released. Xamarin.Forms is an efficient library for creating cross-platform user interfaces. The xamarin.forms can be coded once to generate an application interface based on the mainstream mobile platform (IOS, Android, Windows Phone). Unlike HTML 5, Xamarin.Forms is a native interface solution, which means that the interface rendered through xamarin.forms is tightly connected to the underlying API. Developers can work with APIs such as Core Motion, Passkit, Storekit, and more in iOS.

Xamarin.Forms tutorials develop the tools needed for xamarin.forms applications, and in this book we are developing applications through the visual Studio 2015 integrated xamarin.forms. Because of the different requirements of different platform applications, in addition to Visual Studio 2015 integrated tools, want to achieve the perfect development effect, but also need to install some other tools. Below we will explain what other development tools need to be installed according to the requirements of different application platforms.

iOS apps in the Xamarin.Forms app

The following is a description of the tools required to develop an iOS application using Visual Studio 2015 integrated xamarin.forms.

1.Mac or Mac virtual machine

iOS apps can't be created without Apple's compiler (Xcode), so you'll need a Mac or Mac virtual machine first.

2.Xcode

Because Apple rules that iOS apps need to be compiled with Xcode, it's important to use Xcode development tools to develop iOS apps.

3.OS x version of the Xamarin tool Xamarin.ios

Xamarin.Forms is a framework or library of Xamarin, so developing a xamarin.forms application first needs to download the Xamarin installation package.

The Xamarin installation package is divided into two parts: the Xamarin installation package for OS X (for iOS apps) and the Xamarin installation package for Windows (for Android apps).

Developers need to download OS X's Xamarin installation package (for iOS apps) to a Mac computer, and then install the Xamarin.ios using the Xamarin installation package. Xamarin.ios can build and deploy services for the iOS application on your Mac to write and test your network on a Windows computer, meaning that Xamarin.ios is a bridge between Mac computers and Windows computers.

Android apps in the Xamarin.Forms app

The following is a description of the tools required to develop an Android application using Visual Studio 2015 integrated xamarin.forms.

1.Android Development Tools

Because Android development tools require the support of the Java Runtime environment. So first install the Java JDK and configure the Java environment. Then we need to download the Android App development tool ADT (Android Developers tool,android development tool). The tool includes not only the Android SDK Manager tool, but also the Android Emulator management tool.

With ADT, you can not only download the latest Android SDK and various versions of the tools from the Google website, but also manage a variety of emulators. We need to download the required Android SDK version and the corresponding tool via the Android SDK manager (as described in the following section). Such an Android environment is not complete.

2.Windows version of the Xamarin tool

When developing Android apps using Xamarin, other tools and software are required in addition to the ANDRIOD development environment above. First, the system needs to install Android NDK for Windows support, and then you need gtk# support. That's how you can start to install Xamarin. This means that the following tools are required to install Xamarin:

• Android NDK for Windows
• gtk#
• Xamarin

3.Visual Studio 2015

Visual Studio 2015 for short vs 2015. This is a newer IDE developed by Microsoft. Visual Studio 2015 is well supported by the Windows operating system, and native support for C # programming. It is a stent developed by Xamarin.Forms, and the main operation of this book will be done on the platform. For C # Programmers who develop xamarin.forms, this also means that visual Studio 2015 is their main battleground. Familiar operating environment can save a lot of platform learning time.

Windows Phone applications in xamarin.forms applications

Development of the Windows Phone application is simpler than the development of the other two applications, and Visual Studio 2015 integrates directly with the Windows Phone development environment and can be used directly with Visual Studio 2015.

Note: The development environment for Windows phone needs to be developed in the Windows8.0 operating system.

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Xamarin.Forms Tutorial developing the tools needed for xamarin.forms applications