We will build a mobile app that runs on either iOS or Android for managing customers in Northwind.
Note
If you have never run Xcode, run it now to ensure that all its required components are installed and registered.
To target Android, you must install at least one Android SDK. A default installation of Visual Studio for Mac already includes one Android SDK, but it is often an older version to support as many Android devices as possible. To use the latest features of Xamarin.Forms, you must install a more recent Android SDK.
Start Visual Studio for Mac, and navigate to Visual Studio Community
| Preferences
.
In Preferences
, navigate to Projects
| SDK Locations
, and select the Platforms
you want, for example, Android 8.0 - Oreo
, as shown in the following screenshot: