Summary

In this chapter, we've started our journey towards learning what mobile cross-platform means, and how to start using Xamarin Studio and its features in order to write our apps with C#.

We prepared all the basics and tools we need to make our first app.

We overviewed the Software Development Lifecycle for mobile applications.

Now we are ready to start developing with Xamarin Studio.

In cross-platform projects, sharing code between projects is important and there are ways to achieve this goal. We'll examine the aspects and methodologies of sharing code by shared projects in next chapter.

Separation between the UI and code behind it is also important. We'll address the MVVM design pattern and learn it by writing an example library.