Name: app-acquaint
Owner: Xamarin
Description: A Xamarin demo app featuring both Xamarin.Forms and native approaches to Xamarin development
Created: 2016-03-11 19:14:28.0
Updated: 2018-01-19 11:48:02.0
Pushed: 2017-10-28 09:14:33.0
Size: 224273
Language: C#
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A simple Xamarin app named Acquaint. The app is a simple list of contacts, each of which can be viewed in a detail screen and modified in an edit screen. It runs on iOS 9+, Android 4.2+, and UWP (mobile and desktop).
The app is implemented in two ways in order to demonstrate the two different approaches to Xamarin app development:
The app targets three platforms:
Includes integrations such as:
For Android, you'll need to obtain a Google Maps API key: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/platform_features/maps_and_location/maps/obtaining_a_google_maps_api_key/
Insert it in the Android project: ~/Properties/AndroidManifest.xml
:
<application ...>
...
<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.geo.API_KEY" android:value="GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY" />
...
</application>
The UWP app requires that you install the SQLite for UWP extension for Visual Studio. You can find the latest version here: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/4913e7d5-96c9-4dde-a1a1-69820d615936
The steps that were taken to implement it in the UWP project can be found in steps 1-3 here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-service-mobile-windows-store-dotnet-get-started-offline-data/#_update-the-client-app-to-support-offline-features
| 3D Touch Previewing (iOS) | Shared View Transitions (Android) | | — | — | | | |
The app has three main screens:
All images of people in the app come from UIFaces.com. In accordance with the guidelines, fictitious names have been provided.
If you see build issues when pulling updates from the repo, try cleaning and rebuilding the solution.