Creating the new project

Open Visual Studio and click on File | New | Project..., as illustrated in the following screenshot:

This will open the Create a new project dialog wizard. Follow these next steps: 

1. Search for xamarin forms as per screenshot. 
2. Select the Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms) project template, and click Next, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

3. Enter News as the name of the app, as shown in the following screenshot:

4. Click Create.
5. Select the Blank template and select Android and iOS under Platform, as illustrated in the following screenshot (At the time of writing, the CollectionView control that we will be using was not fully supported by UWP. If you need it to work in UWP, give it a try.):

6. Click OK.

That's it for project creation. We just need to do some package updating to make sure that we are using the latest and greatest version of Xamarin.Forms.