Get started with Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms is a cross-platform UI toolkit that allows developers to efficiently create native user interface layouts that can be shared across iOS, Android, and Universal Windows Platform apps.

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Overview

• What is Xamarin?
• Supported platforms

How-To Guide

• Installation
• Build your first app

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• Xamarin.Forms on Q&A

Quickstarts

How-To Guide

• Create a Xamarin.Forms application
• Perform navigation in a Xamarin.Forms application
• Store data in a local SQLite.NET database
• Style a cross-platform Xamarin.Forms application

Concept

• Quickstart deep dive

User interface tutorials

How-To Guide

• StackLayout
• Label
• Button
• Entry
• Editor
• Image
• Grid
• CollectionView
• Pop-ups

App fundamentals tutorials

How-To Guide

• App lifecycle
• Local database
• Web services

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Concept

• .NET developers
• Java developers
• Objective-C developers
• Azure