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Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android

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Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing Xamarin.Android


Before we move on, we need to get Xamarin.Android installed. This section walks you through installing the latest Xamarin development platform (Xamarin.Android Version 5.1.3 and Xamarin Studio Version 5.9.3) on the Mac operating system.

Tip

At the time of writing this book, the installation instructions presented in this chapter are accurate. However, the tools are being updated rapidly, so these instructions may be out of date by the time you read this. You can refer to the official Xamarin website for the updated installation instructions.

You may choose to install Xamarin.Android and work through the samples on Windows OS; in which case, you will encounter only minor deviations in some of the directions. If you choose to install on the Windows operating system, you may refer to the installation guide from the official Xamarin developer portal at http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/getting_started/installation/windows/.

To install Xamarin.Android, perform...