I am very new to xamarin platform, created PCL App for IOS and Android.
I will be using Esri SDK for Xamarin.
I have started with xamarin forms.
Is it possible to use Esri SDK with PCL(Xamarin Forms) or do i have to create a Shared project?
Is there a separate iOS and android Xamarin SDK ?
Please advice, i am looking for proper solution....
Thanks in advance
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.
Is there any jwplayer sdk available for both xamarin android and ios? Where can I find a tutorials of integrating jwplayer mobile sdks to xamarin?
JWPlayer doesn't appear to directly support Xamarin. However, you can access any native library from Xamarin by creating either an Android or iOS Binding Library.
I have developed an app/component using Xamarin.Forms and as per the requirement I need to integrate that component with another app which is developed on Xamarin Native in Android as well as iOS.
Kindly help me with the suggestions or references
I've seen something like that on a sample called Native2Forms.
What it does, at least in Android, is to use a separete activity to integrate the Xamarin Forms PCL (FormsActivity).