Xamarin for ASP.NET developers

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2 min readNov 12, 2019

For many Xamarin might be just a next episode in .NET journey.

Before I started Xamarin I did: ADO.NET, WinForms, WPF and Windows Phone……

It happens that your current project is Enterprise Solution and now time have come, that it need some mobile client app.

Team is full stack .Net developers with rage of skills except mobile but will to do mobile apps.

What happen to me was exact this case so doable, check out what you need to know.

This is work in progress so I will update when Have time.
You probably don’t have time to read, and I have no time to write.
I will try to be minimalistic.

Assumptions

Before you start I hope you visited:

Xamarin documentation - Xamarin

Xamarin lets you build native apps for Android, iOS, and macOS using .NET code and platform-specific user interfaces…

docs.microsoft.com

and know what is Xamarin.Native and Xamarin.Forms.

Xamarin.Native is kind of hard and sometimes alien that is why I won’t recommend it to start with. If want to have fast effect and you are new in Xamarin, for now doing something else than Forms would NOT be an option.

Later by shortcut Xamarin I will understand Xamarin.Forms project.