index.yml

### YamlMime:Landing

title: Get started with Xamarin
summary: Xamarin.Forms is a cross-platform UI toolkit that allows developers to efficiently create native user interface layouts that can be shared across iOS, Android, and Universal Windows Platform apps.

metadata:
  title: Get started with Xamarin
  description: Articles, quickstarts, and tutorials about developing Xamarin applications with Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac.
  ms.topic: landing-page
  ms.service: xamarin
  ms.assetid: 0F440777-74A2-4AE5-AD1E-5B51EB8BD228
  author: davidbritch
  ms.author: dabritch
  ms.date: 12/23/2019
  no-loc: [Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.Essentials]

landingContent:
  - title: Get started
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: overview
        links:
          - text: What is Xamarin?
            url: ~/get-started/what-is-xamarin.md
          - text: Supported platforms
            url: supported-platforms.md
      - linkListType: how-to-guide
        links:
          - text: Installation
            url: installation/index.md
          - text: Build your first app
            url: first-app/index.md
      - linkListType: get-started
        links:
          - text: Xamarin.Forms on Q&A
            url: /answers/topics/dotnet-xamarinforms.html

  - title: Quickstarts
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: how-to-guide
        links:
          - text: Create a Xamarin.Forms application
            url: quickstarts/app.md
          - text: Perform navigation in a Xamarin.Forms application
            url: quickstarts/navigation.md
          - text: Store data in a local SQLite.NET database
            url: quickstarts/database.md
          - text: Style a cross-platform Xamarin.Forms application
            url: quickstarts/styling.md
      - linkListType: concept
        links:
          - text: Quickstart deep dive
            url: quickstarts/deepdive.md

  - title: User interface tutorials
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: how-to-guide
        links:
          - text: StackLayout
            url: tutorials/stacklayout/index.yml
          - text: Label
            url: tutorials/label/index.yml
          - text: Button
            url: tutorials/button/index.yml
          - text: Entry
            url: tutorials/entry/index.yml
          - text: Editor
            url: tutorials/editor/index.yml
          - text: Image
            url: tutorials/image/index.yml
          - text: Grid
            url: tutorials/grid/index.yml
          - text: CollectionView
            url: tutorials/collectionview/index.yml
          - text: Pop-ups
            url: tutorials/pop-ups/index.yml

  - title: App fundamentals tutorials
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: how-to-guide
        links:
          - text: App lifecycle
            url: tutorials/app-lifecycle/index.yml
          - text: Local database
            url: tutorials/local-database/index.yml
          - text: Web services
            url: tutorials/web-service/index.yml


  - title: Learn about Xamarin
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: concept
        links:
          - text: .NET developers
            url: ~/cross-platform/desktop/index.md
          - text: Java developers
            url: ~/android/get-started/java-developers.md
          - text: Objective-C developers
            url: ~/ios/get-started/objective-c-developers/index.md
          - text: Azure
            url: ~/xamarin-forms/data-cloud/index.yml