Xamarin Forms Quick Start

Hello and welcome to the Xamarin Forms 4.0 course with ASP.NET Core Web API. This course will walk you through Xamarin Forms 4.0 the latest release of Xamarin Forms. The latest release brings many updates to the Xamarin forms which enhance its capabilities and features.

In case you are new to Xamarin Forms, it's the technology that you can use to develop cross-platform apps using C# codebase. You write your code once and it will run on multiple platforms. Also, there are cross-platform controls where you can use a single XAML control that will render by itself based on each platform.

Xamarin Forms 4.0 brings the biggest enhancement to the structure of the App. With the introduction of Shell, the new layout system for Xamarin Forms as an alternative to the tab pages and so on. Shell will make your life way easier than you think. With just a few lines of code, you will be able to generate a side menu or tab bar. Also, you can lazy load your views to enhance performance.

Also, with Shell, there are many things that are out of the box support available where you just add a small reference to it and it will magically appear. Such as the search bar.

Also, we will be working with different layouts to handle your app looks. There are different Xamarin Forms Layout where you can use it to style your app.

And we will take a look at Xamarin Essentials, a NuGet package that has many device API access such as sensors or battery percentage.

And also, we will look at how we can create an ASP.NET Core Web API to save and get data from backend with Xamarin Forms. For sure, your app shall have something as this where it will connect to the API to save and get data.

So join this course now to have these great benefits of Xamarin Forms 4.0