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Xamarin Live Player Preview 2: Continuously Run and Debug Apps
JamesMontemagno
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I just posted about the brand new Preview 2 of the Xamarin Live Player
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I am working with scanner devices that do not have google play on them. Is there another way to download and install?
@tclay there currently is not any other way for distribution, but let me look into it and see if we have any thoughts on it.
APK Mirror would be a good option. It has an older version already.
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/xamarin-inc/
Hi @JamesMontemagno, do we still required MAC machine ( Xcode ) to build and run iOS application over Xamarin Live Player ?
I assume it is still required just confirming
The Live Player was built to help developers get started with Xamarin.Forms mobile development fast with just their device and Visual Studio. I suggest reading through the docs; https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/live/ and checking out the video I uploaded on the post. There are several limitations with the Live Player as your app is not compiled, yet interpreted on the device, so once you out grow that you would want to go for a full developer setup. But File->New and live editing your current XAML view are optimized.
@tclay you can now install via HockeyApp for Non-Google Play Devices
Wonderful! Thanks!
James, love the new UI and live changes. Do you know if there are any plans to support UWP or bring live XAML code to VS?
I created a xamarin forms project (based on out of the box template) with PCL and got errors when trying to use the live player. I see on other forum posts that Live Player does not work with PCL. Is this true?
@davey did you install the Alpha version of the app via TestFlight?
I have Visual Studio 15.3.3. Do I have to wait for release of 15.4 to have this feature?
When will it come in Community or Professional editions of Visual Studio ?
TestFlight not available. Says "I need iOS 9", I have 9.3.5. ¬¬
I have Visual Studio Enterprise 2017, 15.3.4 installed, and there is no mention whatsoever of such Xamarin Live in options.
What I'm doing wrong?
@Username2
it is available in VS 2017 version 15.4 preview
https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/preview/
Thank you for the info.
Just a stupid way to version things...
@Username2 Xamarin Live Player is in preview (it says so in the title of this thread). It makes sense for it to require the preview version of VS2017.