Mastering Xamarin.Forms/Mastering Xamarin.Forms 9/Ex_Files_Xamarin_Dev_Pt_9/Exercise Files/Paperboy/packages/Xamarin.Forms.2.3.3.180/build/portable-win+net45+wp80+win81+wpa81+MonoAndroid10+Xamarin.iOS10+xamarinmac20/(62,3): error MSB4018: The "XamlCTask" task failed unexpectedly. The problem is that there is only one sample program per class and for most of them they will not compile under VS2017 Mac – because of this problem: Xaml compiler. While these MXFD classes use Visual Studio 2017, but an older version of 2017. There is a series of 9 classes named Mastering Xamarin.Forms Development (MXFD). It mentions that you should use MVVM for your solutions, but doesn’t actually go into how to use them, but just a high level overview of what MVVM is. Generally speaking, it’s a good introduction class, but has a glaring problem – MVVM. With Visual Studio for Mac, you cannot build UWP solutions and you must exclude them the first thing, or it will not go far. The sample apps are interesting and show how to build iOS, Android and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) solutions. Interesting intro class – the problem is that it uses Visual Studio 2015 and is pretty old. The other route to go here are the classes offered thru LinkedIn training (formally Lynda). Now, I don’t have a phone number to give them so choosing that option was out. Now Microsoft has their own Xamarin University site, but when registering for a new Microsoft Id, they want a phone number. I used MockFlow to do it with I would have used Balsamiq if it were free and/or more wireframes to create.Īs things are moving fast, I decided to skip the book and go online training route.
I already had a wireframe solution for my next app and I decided to go with Xamarin. Looking at the local Indianapolis market, companies (generally) want multi-platform mobile solutions which means either Xamarin Forms solutions (via Visual Studio) or mobile Javascript solutions (Ionic, React, etc.)