I'm new to xamarin and I'm trying to create cross platform App. In my Visual Studio there are only two options(Refer attached Image) but there should be option to create cross platform App too. I tried reinstalling mobile development with .NET and I'm using Visual Studio 2017.
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Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms) is a cross-platform. This allows you to use .NET with C#. Please try creating anew Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms) project. It should create an Android project, an iOS project, and shared UI project. The shared project is where you will write the shared code for both projects.
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I'm developing xamarin forms apps. I can generate the APKs and run it on my android devices. But how can I do the same for iPhones without having a mac? Is there a way to build my apps on app center or azure devops where it generates the ipa files?
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With Visual Studio 2019 preview you have the Hot Restart that allow you to deploy with the iTunes to your local iphone/ipad...
https://learn.microsoft.com/es-es/xamarin/xamarin-forms/deploy-test/hot-restart
Here is guidance about how to build Xamarin apps for Android and iOS in azure-devops:
Build Xamarin apps azure-devops
Here is document about how to build Xamarin iOS app in AppCenter:
Building Xamarin apps for iOS in AppCenter
If you want to build a xamarin.iOS project locally, you must connect to a network-accessible Mac to build Xamarin.iOS applications. Because building native iOS applications requires access to Apple's build tools, which only run on a Mac.
Refer: Pair to Mac for Xamarin.iOS development
I need to create a new application for Iphone with Xamarin? Forms
Is it possible to do this without any windows system?
I know this sounds bizare but that is the requirment.
Yes, this is possible. You can develop Android and iOS apps with Visual Studio for Mac. Of course you won't be able to develop UWP apps.
With Visual Studio for Mac you can build websites with ASP.NET Core and apps using .NET Core, games with Unity, and mobile apps for Android and iOS using Xamarin. (emphasis mine, see here)
As far as xamarin is concerned, you can do just as much with the Mac version as with Windows. You just can not develop a Windows Phone app on the Mac.
I upgrade visual studio 2017 to version 15.5.2, when I create a new project of xamarin forms not show PCL (Portable Class Libraries) project that appear .net standard and Shared Projects.
I need to create some project PCL of xamarin forms, help me.
Since a recent version the templates replace the PCL library with a .NET Standard library. And I suggest that you stick with it, as it will be the future.
You should be able to create a PCL library if you really want to and make it work. Also, as a workaround, you could create the project on Visual Studio for Mac. It doesn't have the updated templates (yet) and you will still be able to create the app with a PCL. Just copy that or commit it to source control and open it on Windows afterwards.
I am trying to recreate my work environment at home so that I can practice MVVM some more and help some additional students who will be going and getting internships. At work, we use Prism template pack in order to create views for our WPF applications. I downloaded the Prism Template Pack from the url seen below...
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=BrianLagunas.PrismTemplatePack
I fired up Visual Studio but I don't see the Prism Unity App project type under the Prism tab. I do see the Prism Unity App as a recent project type, but when I click on that I cannot create a new project of that type because it says it no longer exists. I have Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4.4 installed with the features .NET desktop development, Universal Windows Platform development, Data storage and processing and Xamarin.
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