Many of the file types you can add to your projects in Xamarin Studio are self-explanatory for developers, but it doesn't hurt to review some of those that are unique to Xamarin Studio, as well as those that are platform-specific. Unfortunately, detailed demonstrations of how to use each of these files is beyond the scope of this book. Hopefully, these descriptions can spark your imagination and provide ideas for your applications:
Native iOS and Android applications can support hybrid HTML 5 functionality by using the Razor templating engine. Adding a Preprocessed Razor Template file to your project will allow you to incorporate Razor-powered web apps into your application.
Add an Asset Catalog to your iOS 7 application to help simplify management of the various images needed for the user interface of your application. An Asset Catalog is not a simple resource file. When you add this object to your project, it will create a folder called
Images.xcassets
, and within that two more folders...