Creating the matchmaking app

In this project, we will learn more about creating reusable controls that can be added to a XAML page. To keep things simple, we will not be using MVVM, but bare-metal Xamarin.Forms without any data binding. What we aim to create is an app that allows the user to swipe images, either to the right or the left, just like most popular matchmaking applications do.

Well, let's get started by creating the project!

Creating the project

Just as with the to-do list app in Chapter 2, Building our First Xamarin.Forms App, this chapter will start with a clean File | New Project approach. We are going to opt for a .NET Standard approach rather than a shared code approach in this chapter; please refer back...