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While most of us are familiar with creating new projects in Visual Studio, creating a Xamarin project has some decisions that affect how we develop our project.
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[MUSIC]
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[SOUND] Let's open up Visual Studio and create a new project.
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On the create New Project dialog,
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you'll find Cross-Platform under the Visual C# section.
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For this course,
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we will pick Cross-Platform App (Xamarin), which gives us a nice starting point.
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We will be building a pizza calculator app, so let's call it PizzaCalculator.
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The New Cross Platform App dialogue has a number of options to choose.
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We want a Blank App, so leave this selected.
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The UI Technology we want is Native.
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Although Xamarin.Forms are great for
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many scenarios, it can increase code sharing and remove most UI-specific code.
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We're not covering Xamarin.Forms in this course because there would be a lot to
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cover and we should understand the basics before adding another framework.
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Choose the Code Sharing Strategy, Portable Class Library, or PCL.
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Later, we'll review the available strategies for
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sharing code across projects and platforms.
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And discuss why we're using a PCL over other options.
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Depending on installed components,
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you may get a dialog to decide which version of Windows 10 you wanna target.
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Just take the default, since we'll not use it in this course.
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You should now see the solution with three projects.
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The shared project and the iOS and Android projects.
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If you have a Windows project,
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you can remove it, since we will not be looking at it in this course.
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