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Creating the POI app
Now that we already have our development environment ready, let's begin by building the POIApp
.
The following section will walk you through the several steps involved to create, build, and deploy the POI application into the Android device:
- Launch Xamarin Studio.
- From the File menu, navigate to New | Solution. The New Solution view will be presented, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Select the Android section on the left-hand side of the screen, navigate to App | Android App, and then click on Next.
- Enter the app name as
POIApp
and the application identifier ascom.packt.poiapp
. - From the Compatibility selection, select Maximum Compatibility to make your application compatible on a full range of devices.
- From the Themes drop-down menu, you may select from the range of available themes and click on Next:
- Review the project location and adjust it if desired. Click on Create:
- Xamarin Studio will create a solution and the required project folders. The project folder will contain a default
MainActivity.cs
class and aMain.axml
layout file.