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QUICK START WITH XAMARIN.IOS

My company had few requests to build mobile application, but they had only me - .net guy. That’s why they chose Xamarin as framework for developing their mobile applications. Xamarin allow create iOS/Android apps in C#. And now I want to write small quick start tutorial how to create iOS app with Xamarin. So lets start… We’ll write small news app in this tutorial, the news source will be bbc.co.uk. Here you can find REST interface to access BBC News http://api.bbcnews.appengine.co.uk/ . When I am writing this article I supposing you already have Xamarin, Xamarin Studio installed.  In Xamarin Studio, choose C# > iOS > iPhone in the left-hand pane, and then, in the center pane, select Empty Project template from the center pane. This will create a new Xamarin.iOS iPhone application.  In AppDelegate on FinishedLaunching method write following code: This code will add root navigation controller and push new CategoryController into navigation. Create folder where we’l