Installing Xamarin.Essentials

- I mentioned that there are simpler,…and more effective ways,…to check for network connectivity.…And in fact there are simpler,…and more effective ways,…to do a lot of things in Xamarin Forms.…You can see that there will be a number of places…when you're accessing files, or cameras,…or other devices, or parts of your devices,…that you need access to platform specific code.…And you could write dependency services as we've done here,…yourself, or you can use Xamarin Essentials.…This is a set of services, or packages,…that provide a lot of these essential functions for you.…

The first thing I am gonna do before…I install it is go to my Android project,…and I'm going to update all…of these Android support packages,…because I do need version 27.0.2.1…in order to get these Xamarin Essentials working.…I'll accept the licenses,…and I will go ahead and get those packages all updated.…Now one thing to notice is Xamarin Forms…package also got updated,…so I should go up to my other projects and…make sure that I update my Xamarin Forms.…