It's time to start building the app. We recommend that you use the same solution we used in Chapter 8, Setting Up a Backend for a Chat App Using Azure Services, because this will make code sharing easier. In that solution, we created a Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms) called Chat:
Select the Blank template and iOS and Android as the platforms. Now that we have created the project, we will update all NuGet packages to the latest versions because the project templates are not updated as often as the packages that are used inside the templates are:
