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Android app GUI
BRMember ✭
Hi guys! I am totally newbie about Xamarin. Yesterday was my first contact using Visual Studio + Xamarin
I have some doubts.
When you create an new project in visual studio , you get a project for each platform (Android/ Windows Phone/ IOS / ..)
If i want to build an app only for Android , can i delete other projects?Looking for Windows Phone, we have xaml files and we can drag and drop controls like : buttons
For Android is the same thing with AXML? There's a way to drag and drop for Android project?
I must to edit one Layout file for each platform?
In advance , thanks And sorry if is not the correct forum to ask this question.
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AdamMeaney
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If you are looking to work in Android, without using the cross platform ui framework Xamarin Forms, then you do not need the other projects.
There is a Forum specifically for Xamarin Android that will be able to help with Android specific issues.
As for a visual editor, usually on Android I don't recommend it, as the editor seems to always use weird margins and paddings instead of the layout relations I would choose. I found I mostly edited the AXML by hand.
But if you want to use one, and Xamarin hasn't provided one yet (disclaimer: I haven't looked at AXML in a while), you could always download Android Studio, the native editor. It provides the ability to edit those files, and the same code usually works for the C# applications.
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If you are looking to work in Android, without using the cross platform ui framework Xamarin Forms, then you do not need the other projects.
There is a Forum specifically for Xamarin Android that will be able to help with Android specific issues.
As for a visual editor, usually on Android I don't recommend it, as the editor seems to always use weird margins and paddings instead of the layout relations I would choose. I found I mostly edited the AXML by hand.
But if you want to use one, and Xamarin hasn't provided one yet (disclaimer: I haven't looked at AXML in a while), you could always download Android Studio, the native editor. It provides the ability to edit those files, and the same code usually works for the C# applications.
Thank you so much!