Xamarin Android Tutorial 01 - Getting Started

A complete series on using Xamarin for Android.

In this video we setup Xamarin, install all that is required, unlock our phone, build a basic application and deploy it to a real device.

[lordgaulo]

I couldn't be more excited that you decided to do a Xamarin-Android series

[Pullance]

Really useful video. Thank you. Sometimes the getting started can be the hardest part to overcome. I've always want to give development for phone apps a go and its really cool seeing an app on my phone. Even just this template app. Its also good to know something is going to be a total PITA upfront based on someone else's experience (and not learn that the hard way). Liking the "Technical Difficulties".

[joenguyen]

I thought I was the only few that had issues with Xamarin. It is indeed a $hitty program.. lol. I used it to learn how to create apps for the iPhone, but it crashed so much and is so buggy, I put it on hold. I spent more time debugging Xamarin than the app itself.

I found out that I have to keep VS, Xamarin, and XCode up to date constantly or it will cause all kinds of issues. Other times, I spent hours fixing an issue, and then I ended up shutting down and restarting the project and it works. Another time, I had to uninstall and reinstall Xamarin and that fixed the issue.

Btw, thanks for all the great Videos!!

[MultiMinors]

I found very good and effective way of testing your xamarin app on your computer without using laggy unusable emulator. All you need is project on xamarin forms (is there a reason not to use it in the first place? what real benefit do you get by using android specific xamarin?), then you can add new project to the solution - WPF windows app, then you install xamarin.forms nuget package on this wpf project, add reference to shared xamarin forms project and write two lines of code in mainwindow init in wpf. Nothing else needs to be done and you can run your application on windows and test its logic with 5 seconds compilation time and easy to handle debugging.
The only disadvantage is that wpf application looks different than android, but i assume everyone wants to have their logic working first and they dont wanna "test" how everything looks

[rishitsingh]

It will be the best series after wpf one

[vanice]

How do you setup the hdmi connection to the phone so you have screen in screen?

[MrNameeee]

Hey Luke, thank you for this great video! Can you describe again how you got your phones screen to show on your desktop? How do you record this?
Thanx!

[שלומיטובול]

Hey Luke !, first of all thx for your amazing videos you doing great !, second Over the last few days im looking for info about options to stream / download torrent in xamarin (using existing nuget package or something like that ), you have any idea?
Thanks in advance Shlomi !

[hijo]

Hey, did you checked Xamarin Live Player? I used it for a while and came to ask for your opinion. It pretty much does the same as the wireless connection and it's quicker to set up, you just scan the code or type the code in your device.

[backlife]

Very good the video, and i want to know if it is possible to make series tutorials on Real World application about Xamarin like it was for WPF

[Ramndozer]

It is great lessons! Thank you very much for knowledge sharing! <3 u.

[ammaralhelali]

Thank you to start a xamarin android series, but I'm wondering why didn't you start with Xamarin.Forms serie ?

[tamaspribeli]

Hi,
Very nice video. Unfortunatelly, visual studio fails to build the project when i connect my phone with a cable to the computer. I reinstalled xamarin, but i still have the problem. Do yout have any idea how can i solve this issue?

[Solomovienerd]

It is true that you can easily debug your app on a android phone than an emulator they suck the life out of you

[persoulrpg]

Surface keyboard is amazing, but you destroyed it. Very bad man lol.

[MultiMinors]

hahahah Xamarin haahhah

gotta enjoy bugs