My aim is to be able to reuse Xamarin Forms pages in my xamarin.ios project. I know that it is possible for ios extensions. However, can it be achieved in an xamarin.ios application project?
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Is there a way to create a Xamarin or Xamarin.Forms solution that targets Android and classic Windows to produce a Windows 7,8,8.1,10 executable (exe)?
I am not interested in UWP.
Xamarin.Forms will support WPF in the future so you will be able to deploy an EXE file to those platforms. Read more about it here on the blog.
Also, you can always share the business logic, data and other layers with any other .NET application so having an Android app, Windows app and a core project that doesn't depend on Xamarin is perfectly fine.
You can already take a look at the WPF branch of the Xamarin.Forms project on GitHub.
We are working on a native Xamarin application. We have a requirement to view pdf and excel files in both android and ios Xamarin application. Can people please suggest about some Xamarin components supported for both android and ios application. Please suggest both paid and free components.
I was giving an interview for a company and I was told by the architect that they are creating iOS apps from Xamarin.iOS ( NOT Xamarin Forms) with MvvmCross framework and they use storyboards for UI. But if the UI is very simple they use XAML to create them.
I never knew we can use XAML for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Droid. We had a small discussion/argument if that's even possible. He said they were using it successfully.
My question, is it really possible to use XAML in Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Droid. Because, if we can do that, I feel no use of using Xamarin forms.
If yes, can anyone provide some kind of documentation?
Thank you.
There is no way to design UI in XAML using Xamarin.Android or Xamarin.iOS, but you can include Xamarin.Forms page in Xamarin.Android or Xamarin.iOS app. This way you can have native app with UI using storyboards, but with some Xamarin.Forms pages designed in XAML.
There is a sample how to do that in Xamarin Forms samples project on GitHub.
Only Xamarin Forms support sharing of UI via XAML.
UI for iOS has to be made using xib or storyboard.
For Android using AXML.
Windows Phone, UWP, WinPhone Silverlight, Windows can use XAML for UI.
Have you removed this components from Components storein Xamarin Studio ? If yes then how to force load calabash framework in xamarin ios project. If any alternative option is available in place of calabash by Xamarin for iOS only(Except UI.Test Xamarin framework) in Components, then let me know. Looking forward to response from your side.
Try using TestCloudAgent from Nuget.
I have a Xamarin iOS unified app.
I want to add a Xamarin form to it.
How can I do this?
Thanks,
Kaustubh
-You can not do it directly.
-Create a Xamarin PCL project, it will create a shared project and native projects to iOS and Android
-You can add you Xamarin native project, necessary files to it
-Create a page renderer in Xamarin Forms Shared project
-Use it to load required page from native project
-Page renderer will act as a native page.You can call your native functions, UI from that point onwards.
Xamarin forms is a kind of project, not a form you can add to a project that is not xamarin forms
You can just add a new project of type Xamarin.Forms in your solution and you'll then have to port your code or share as much as possible through a PCL.
Source and reference : developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/
[Edited to take comments into accounts]