Xamarin.Forms Starter Kit

The Starter Kit is now based on .NET Standard 2.0 and Xamarin.Forms 4.5 (latest update 03/08/2020)

This is a Xamarin.Forms solution written in C#, that targets Android and iOS (UWP is no longer supported) and is intended to be a starting point for beginners using Xamarin.Forms.

The sample app demonstrates:

1. how to retrieve data asynchronously from the Internet

2. how to store data in a local SQLite database

3. how to bind information to the user interface

4. basic navigation

5. connectivity check with Xamarin.Essentials

6. how to show modal messages

7. how to implement a navigation bar with buttons

8. how to share contents with the Share plugin

9. how to raise toast notifications

This can be improved in a number of ways, please fork and submit pull requests.