Beginning the project

It's time to start coding! Before moving on, however, make sure you have your development environment set up as described in Chapter 1, Introduction to Xamarin.

This chapter will be a classic File | New Project chapter, guiding you step-by-step through the process of creating your first to-do list app. There will be no downloads required whatsoever.

Setting up the project

A Xamarin app can essentially be created using one of two code-sharing strategies:

• As a shared project
• As a .NET Standard library

The first choice, a shared project, will create a project type that is essentially a linked copy of each file in it. The file exists in one common place and is linked in at build time. This means...