From the course: Xamarin.Forms Essential Training

What you should know - Xamarin Tutorial

From the course: Xamarin.Forms Essential Training

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What you should know

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- [Instructor] Before we get started with this course, there's a few things you should know. First, you should be comfortable with C# and Visual Studio. We're going to be using language features, and features of the Visual Studio environment. I'm going to assume you have a basic understanding and level of comfort with those. Second, you need to install Xcode from the Mac App Store and run it one time. When you run it that first time, it's going to prompt you to install more components and you want to make sure to finish that before you start using Visual Studio. We are going to do the development on a Mac. You can choose to follow along on Windows using Visual Studio, but without a Mac, you'll only be able to do the Android portions. So if you want to to do the iOS, you'll need a Mac anyway. That's why we chose to use the Mac for the demonstrations here. And finally, you'll need to install Visual Studio 2019 on your Mac. I've used Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Community edition. But if you have the Professional or Enterprise edition installed, that will work as well. One note about the installation of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, when you do the installation, you'll see a screen that looks like this, asking you what you'd like to install. Make sure that you check that box for Android and iOS as we'll use both of those throughout the course. In my case, by default, Android wasn't selected. So I made sure to select that as well as the iOS so I could build apps for both platforms.

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