Follow these few steps in order to create the project:
- Open Visual Studio and click on File | New | Project, as shown in the following screenshot:
This will open up the Create a new project wizard.
- Enter xamarin forms in the search field and select the Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms) template, as shown in the following screenshot, and click Next:
- We will be calling our application WhackABox in this project, so let's enter that into the Project name field, as shown in the following screenshot, and click Create:
- Next, we select a project template. Select the Blank template option to create a bare minimum Xamarin.Forms app.
- Uncheck the Windows (UWP) checkbox under the Platform heading, since this app will only be supporting iOS and Android.
- Finish the setup wizard by clicking OK, and let Visual Studio scaffold the project for you. This might take a couple of minutes. You can see the aforementioned fields and options that...
