Weather is a Xamarin.Forms GTK backend application that makes use OpenWeatherMap.org API, to demonstrate the possibilities of the new backend making use of a great variety of functionality.
Xamarin.Forms allows you to build native UIs for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux from a single, shared codebase. You can dive into mobile development with Xamarin.Forms by following our free self-guided learning from Xamarin University. This project exercises the following patterns and features:
- Xamarin.Forms
- XAML UI
- Converters
- Custom Controls
- Data Binding
- MVVM
- Styles
- Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (14.0 or higher) to compile C# 6 language features (or Visual Studio MacOS)
- Xamarin add-ons for Visual Studio 3.2.1.64 or higher (available via the Visual Studio installer)
- Visual Studio Community Edition is fully supported!
Download or clone the repository. This is a solution with two projects.
Rebuild the solution to get all neccesary NuGet packages.
Access to AppSettings.cs file available in the Portable Class Library to introduce city.
Enjoy!
This project is based on MyWeather.Forms by James Montemagno.
If you see build issues when pulling updates from the repo, try cleaning and rebuilding the solution.
Code released under the MIT license.