Xamarin Forms Quickstart

NB! Ammy doesn’t support .NET Standard dependencies at the moment (github issue)

Install Ammy Visual Studio Extension

Go to Visual Studio Gallery and install Visual Studio Extension

Create Xamarin.Forms project

Create Xamarin.Forms Portable blank app

Install Ammy package

Run install Ammy.XamarinForms in Package Manager Console targeting your portable project.

Create MainPage.ammy

Click Add -> New Item… and select Ammy Page for Xamarin.Forms

Add Label to your page:

ContentPage "AmmyXamarinFormsSample.MainPage" {
  Label { "Hello, World!" }
}

Set MainPage as content in App.cs

Go to App.cs and replace dummy content with MainPage:

public App()
{
    // The root page of your application
    MainPage = new MainPage();
}

Run you application

Set AmmyXamarinFormsSample.Droid or any other platform as a StartUp project and hit F5

You should see something like this:

Video

Please note, that Xamarin.Forms support is still in beta.

Don’t forget to submit issues, we try to fix them as fast as possible.