Since Nokia X (and X+ and XL) is based on Android and Xamarin supports Android, can we use Xamarin to build applications for the new Nokia X phones?
Or is this a different breed of Android.
Nokia X (and X+ and XL) is built upon the Android Project V4.1.2 (Level 16). Yes, it's compatible with Xamarin.Android and you just have to select the proper API level.
It's also interesting to know that Nokia uses Xamarin and MVVM Cross for Nokia X's pre-installed apps.
One example of this is the Nokia MixRadio app, which started its life
as a Windows Phone and Windows Store application and using the power
of the Xamarin platform, is shipping as a pre-installed app on Nokia X
devices. To make the most of their existing applications, they
maximised the use of shared code with Portable Class Libraries and the
popular third party MVVM library MVVMCross whilst still taking
advantage of the Nokia X platform’s nuances and user interface.
Here the official post from Xamarin.
Nokia X service APIs (maps, payment and notification) have also been implemented as free Xamarin components.
https://components.xamarin.com/?search=Nokia
Please also note that Xamarin.Android version 4.12.0 or higher is required!
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I am looking at Xamarin UI test as a POC for a native Android and iOS app. Not used Xamarin before or C, so I am bluffing my way through at the moment. I have managed to get it running on the Android Phone version of the app, but how do I make it clever enough to look for different elements between the Phone / Tablet implementation? Going further I will be trying to make the POC cross platform so will need to take into account the platform too.
I have seen references to platform and idiom but not sure how to use them in the Tests.cs file.
Thanks.
I would like to use Xamarin software as developing "Smart eye glass" which is Sony products.
I am wonderring that "sony_smarteyeglass_sdk_v1.5" is allowed to use in "Xamarin"?
I know that "AndroidStudio" is compatible with Sony products(Smartglass).
The SmartEyeglass SDK is really just a set of java libraries for Android that give you the correct interface to the SmartEyeglass device. All of the code runs on the Android device and therefore you have access to any functionality that any other Android app has.
We need to build a commercial mobile app that is supported on iOS, Android and UWP platforms. We have been looking at react native and xamarin forms to do so. What is more recommended/preferable technology to implement this?
Reasons why we wanted to use react native in first place:
1) more experience in JavaScript
2) Some of the UI designs in our mobile app includes having cross platform features which by default could be native to either IOS or android. Such as having icon badges on tab items, having toggle search box in navigation bar. On react native we found these were more easily achievable by git hub plugins but in xamarin forms you need to write custom renderers to achieve so.
Reasons why started investigating on xamarin forms: Since the app needs to run windows phones too, we stared using react native XP plugin to support that. But end prototype on windows phone wasn't very impressive in terms of performance and user experience of some of react native plugins we have used. Plus we also had to do quite a bit UI customisation in terms of specifying width/heights to make components work.
I have been develop on Xamarin a few years now. My honest opinion is that there is a lot of third party libraries and components that only has support for Android and iOS only. Maybe you you check out what third party libraries you need and work back from there.
If Windows Phones are an honest target for you going forward, unless you can limit to those capable of UWP apps (Win 10 Mobile) then scratch Xamarin from the list. Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 support is deprecated and will be dropped soon from Forms.
I'm making app with bluetooth device with using Xamarin.forms. (PCL Project)
It's great platform and many great developers participate it.
I love it.
I have a question, let's say, I have to do porting third party library(SDK) from each native SDK for Xamarin. (ex-facebook / Of course I know there is facebook SDK for Xamarin already. It's just for example.)
What documents should I look?
In my actual case, I have to make app that uses DFU OTA to nordic bluetooth mcu. Nordic company gave to their developer native code(iOS and Android) for that.
Now I have to convert or use it on Xamarin.forms.
I learned dependency services and it works great.
Should I use dependency services?
By the time I'm writing this, I'm working on a Xamarin cross-platform app (iOS,Android and Windows Phone), using Azure Mobile Services. There is interest of also developing Mac OS X version of this app.
Is there a way to use the Azure for the OS X app, because I can't find anything on the web? Please, be descriptive as possible :)
There is not currently Xamarin.Mac support in Mobile Services. If you look here (https://github.com/Azure/azure-mobile-apps-net-client/tree/master/sdk) you will see there is a Xam.iOS, Android, and Forms project.
You can add a feature request for Xam.Mac, or make an open PR that adds in a Xam.Mac project. I'd assume the main PCL component will work and its just a matter of adding the Mac specific wrappers where needed. I'm not sure how much dev work that would actually entail though to say if its feasible or not.