I would like to develop an application both in iOS and android.
I just tried ionic framework and xamarin (forms) for the development. I found that ionic framework is not suitable for my application, but I am very impressed with Xamarin. Xamarin have only a limited support.
How can I take a Xamarin Enterprise license? Is the Enterprise license help me to get official development support?
If you have VS Professional or Enterprise you get Support from Microsoft / Xamarin, if you use the free Community Edition then you get community support, see https://www.xamarin.com/compare-visual-studio
There’s also a network of Xamarin Partners and a Consultants who can give you bespoke support tiered to exactly what you need. Email them to explain the level of support you need and they will let you know he best route
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Shortly after Microsoft's announcement that Xamarin would be free with Visual Studio, they announced Insights merge with HockeyApp.
When I follow the Insights guide here: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/insights/getting-started/
I only get to the new app setup before I receive the error:
An active Xamarin Platform license is required to add applications to Insights.
I've been trying to find out where to put my visual studio enterprise license code in the Xamarin portal so I can get some crash analytics with my mobile app.
I see notifications everywhere mentioning the merge with HockeyApp but I haven't found anything that says Insights is being deprecated. A 'merge' to me by definition implies that both HockeyApp and Insights are changing and they both should now be the same service.
Does anyone know the process for crash analytics in Xamarin? It looks like it's been months since their announcement but I haven't found clear direction for new mobile applications.
Insights is only available to accounts who are grandfathered in. Moving forward, they are encouraging Insights and HA users to migrate to the new VS Mobile Center (mobile.azure.com) although there is still not feature parity with the older two platforms. However, if you are primarily interested in Crash analytics that is available in Mobile Center.
Thanks in advance!
I haven't tried the free VisualStudio 2015 Community Edition, but I know that it has Xamarin Starter Edition included. I read that it has Xamirin.Android/iOS but not Xamarin.Forms, also that there are certain restrictions.
I wonder how to do the UI in the Starter Edition if it doesn't include Xamarin.Forms. What technology is being used to do the UI in this case (for Android)? Is it MVVM oriented?
If it is somehow possible to do the UI for Android in the starter edition, what UI development approach/pattern is best, so that it's best to migrate to Xamarin.Forms later on? Is it classic MVVM? Or may be it's even easier, so that I will be able to use the same say XAML code...
You are able to design a fully native Android UI using Xamarin. Read the tutorial.
If you want to use the MVVM pattern then you should consider using MvvmCross. Read the tutorials, see the sample codes or watch the N+1 videos.
i'm newbie in Xamarin. am download all components and i don't know how to develop cross platform app for iOS, android and windows.
if u have any tutorial step to step app development. please help me.
Here it is the official guides, they are pretty much helpful for basic development, you will have to use Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android to develop some specific thing more related to the platform.
My company is developing corporate Windows 8.1 apps for use within the organisation. Although we are only targeting Windows 8.1, we are interested in developing our apps with a view to eventually target Android and/or iOS by using Xamarin.
So, we want to develop using PCLs that are compatible with Xamarin, but we haven't licenced it yet, since we're not ready. Can we simply install the PCL profiles for Xamarin so we can at least be assured that our classes will be compatible, if and when we are ready?
So you have couple of possibilities.
As m-y mentions in his comment you can install the trial and you will get the PCL profiles.
You can get someone else with the Xamarin tools installed to grab a copy of the PCL profiles on his machine (a bit harder to maintain).
You can buy the product (might not be what you want)
However, you could go ahead, make the PCL you are currently using and target it to WPA8.1 and Windows 8.1, and later on just change the profile and make the minor corrections it would take to get it working with Xamarin.
The profiles are not xamarin profiles - they are .net profiles which xamarin support.
The profiles are installed as part of visual studio 2013 - or can be installed as extensions to visual studio 2012.
If you select WindowsPhone Silverlight 8.0, .net 4.5 and Windows Store apps then this will allow you to build a profile 78 pcl library - which is one of the profiles xamarin support - and is a pretty good choice for modern development...
I am looking forward to start a mobile application development business and wish a to have direct knowledge of the technologies that run behind the cool apps. Being new to the programming / development world...pls suggest if it is better to learn .Net or Java before learning about Android SDK, iOS SDK etc?
well if your goal is android development you should learn java. if you want to do windows phone 7 .net would be the way to go.