Building mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms and Visual Studio for Mac

Start Visual Studio for Mac.

Creating a Xamarin.Forms project

Navigate to File | New Solution...

In the New Project dialog box, choose Multiplatform | App in the left-hand column.

Choose Xamarin.Forms | Blank  Forms App in the middle column, as shown in the following screenshot:

Creating a Xamarin.Forms project

Click on Next.

Enter the App Name  Ch15_MobileApp, and Organization Identifier  com.packt, as shown in the following screenshot:

Creating a Xamarin.Forms project

Click on Next.

Change the Solution Name to Chapter15, and Location to /Users/[user_folder]/Code ...

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