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

1. Start Visual Studio, and wait for the IDE to finish loading.
2. From the File Menu, select New, then Project
3. In the New Project dialog, select Visual C# then Android from the far left pane.
4. Step 3 will load the the Xamarin Android Templates in the center pane, select Blank App (Android) from that pane.
5. Enter a name for your project in the Name: field below the templates pane.
6. Press OK, to create the project.

Visual studio will then create and then load your new project.

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