Prerequisites
Before creating a project in Visual Studio you must have installed the following items:
- Visual Studio 2013 or higher
- Xamarin Platform
Create a new project
- Start Visual Studio, and wait for the IDE to finish loading.
- From the
File
Menu, selectNew
, thenProject
- In the New Project dialog, select
Visual C#
thenAndroid
from the far left pane. - Step 3 will load the the Xamarin Android Templates in the center pane, select
Blank App (Android)
from that pane. - Enter a name for your project in the Name: field below the templates pane.
- Press
OK
, to create the project.
Visual studio will then create and then load your new project.
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