LiveCode now supports Xamarin Forms (XAML soon)

FrankAKrueger

If you write your Xamarin Forms UIs using code, then I think you'll really enjoy my LiveCode IDE Extension for Xamarin Studio.

It is now able to display any Page derived class and updates that display as you edit code.

I made a video demonstrating this ability - pardon my stammering as I confuse myself over the .Forms API :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gKv71tVvuc

(Sorry, couldn't get the embed to work here.)

AlessandroCaliaro

Amazing @FrankAKrueger .
Thanks!

MarkRadcliffe

Nice Addon!

Is there any likely hood of a visual studio version for this addon? I see that there is a xamarin inspector plugin for visual studio but I have never tried it,

Does this support doing things like REST requests and such or is it just a static view? How would someone bind to a example ViewModel for to use this?

Cheers

FrankAKrueger

@MarkRadcliffe it's a live view that you can interact with and that's executing its logic as normal.

To bind view models I would simply create test versions of the UI. Something like:

class MyPage : ContentPage {...}

class TestMyPage : MyPage
{
    public TestMyPage() {
        ViewModel vm = // ... get your test view model
        BindingContext = vm;
    }
}

and then just monitor TestMyPage.

I think I know how to do VS support so it's just a matter of finding time.

v3yr0n

@FrankAKrueger i'm unable to install the addin after upgrading to xamarin studio 6.0