This is source code of newest Xamarin.Forms with .NET Standard Xamarin.Forms core project Template by Japan Xamarin User Group.

• Xamarin.Forms 3.5.0.129452
  • MonoAndroid 9.0 and Android Support Library 28.0.0.1
• .NET Standard 2.0 core project
• PackageReference (can use only Visual Studio 2017)

• Windows 10 (Recommend) or 7
• Visual Studio 2017
• Android SDK 28

If you have git or some client tools for Github, the easiest way to get it is just clone the project on the following location directly:

%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

or make Cross-Platform directory in the above directory, then clone this repogitory.

cd "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#"
git clone https://github.com/ytabuchi/XamarinFormsTemplate.git

After the first clone, you can update your copy by git pull in XamarinFormsTemplate directory.

• Download XamarinFormsTemplate-master.zip file from GitHub
• Extract the zip file
• Move the extracted XamarinFormsTemplate-master folder to the following location: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

Please see blog page (in Japanese) for how to use.

Select templates

In this template, the Bundle ID is set org.jxug.PROJECTNAME. If you want to use your own Bundle ID such as com.yourcompany.PROJECTNAME, please follow the instructions below:

• Android
  • Oepn Properties\AndroidManifest.xml, then change package="org.jxug.$ext_safeprojectname$".
  • $ext_safeprojectname$ will be replaced with a new project name that you input in "New project" window.
• iOS
  • Open Info.plist, then change <string>org.jxug.$ext_safeprojectname$</string>.
  • $ext_safeprojectname$ will be replaced with a new project name that you input in "New project" window.
• UWP
  • UWP package name will be set from UUID, so that you need nothing to do.

MyTemplate.vstemplate located in Root folder is a Master file that is specify each child projects. In each projects folder, there are MyTemplate.vstemplate files. They are the template setting files for each projects.

If Xamarin.Forms will be updated, you can just change the version numbers of each MyTemplate.vstemplate files

There are some macros such as WizardExtension in the template files. Please see MSDN document for each meaning.