Beginning the project

It's time to start coding! First, 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 the app. There will be no downloads required whatsoever.

Creating the project

Open Visual Studio and click on File | New | Project, as shown in the following screenshot:

This will open the New Project dialog. Expand the Visual C# node and click on Cross-Platform. Select the Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms) item in the list. Complete the form by naming your project. We will be calling our application WhackABox in this example. Move on to the...