Chapter 1, Setting Up Visual Studio for Mac, focuses on how to download and install Visual Studio Community 2017 for Mac, as well as the Xamarin components for both the iOS and Android platforms. You'll explore some of the features contained within the Visual Studio for Mac IDE, and then gain an understanding of the Xamarin mobile platform. You'll learn how to create your very first Xamarin.Forms cross-platform application and create the user interface using XAML and the underlying C# code. We we also cover how to set and define conditional breakpoints within your code, as well as how to use the built-in debugging tools to debug your application.
Chapter 2, Building a Photo Library App Using Android, focuses on how ...