Beginning Xamarin Development for the Mac: Create iOS, watchOS, and Apple tvOS apps with Xamarin.iOS and Visual Studio for Mac

© Dawid Borycki 2018

Dawid BoryckiBeginning Xamarin Development for the Machttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3132-6_1

1. Fundamentals

Dawid Borycki¹ 

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Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, Warsaw, 01-224, Poland

 

In this chapter, I will guide you through the installation of the development tools you will need for this book. Specifically, we will install Visual Studio for Mac as well as Xcode. The latter is the native toolset for Mac developers. It delivers IDE, SDKs, and also the device simulators we will use. If you have these tools already installed, you can skip to the subsequent section.

After ensuring that all tools are ready, we will create the first Xamarin.iOS app for the iPhone and iPad. This app, ...