
Since it is the first time, you will be prompted to create a new device you can just click Create and go with the default settings or customize it your way. Once Visual Studio finishes downloading required SDKs and restoring NuGet packages let’s run our app.Ĭlick Run on Android Emulator. Visual Studio will prompt you to install the Android SDK if it is not already installed. Ensure Android and iOS are both selected, and click OK.

NET developer it is very likely that you already have installed Visual Studio, if this is your case and you haven’t included this workload over the initial installation you can add it by opening the Visual Studio Installer. The first thing you need to do is to set up your development environment, start by downloading Visual Studio 2019 if you don’t have it already and make sure to select Mobile development with.

It is Free, it is cross platform and it is open source so let’s get started at the very basic, a good old-fashioned Hello World. Xamarin, a platform for building Android and iOS apps with.
