Porting Win RT app using Crosslight for backend code to iOS/Android - is Xamarin.Forms viable?

yudi — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:19:20 GMT

I recommend you to port your existing WinRT app (which has been developed using Crosslight) to Android/iOS platform and use Crosslight Form Builder instead of Xamarin.Forms.

Crosslight Form Builder is a built-in cross-platform form builder framework that helps developers to create native forms easily with UI aesthetics that conforms to each platform’s user interface guidelines. The metadata definiton itself is shared amongst other platforms as well, resulting in a clean, functional form in minutes.

This article will guides you to create a simple taxi order form by utilizing Crosslight Form Builder.

For more advanced scenario, we can extend the capabilities of the Crosslight Form Builder beyond its original capabilities. In this post we’re going to learn how to add an option to choose the driver in CrosslightFormBuilder sample, as well as showing a custom view with the driver’s photo in the form, with the driver’s phone number, which when tapped, will initiate a call to the driver.

Hope this helps.

Porting Win RT app using Crosslight for backend code to iOS/Android - is Xamarin.Forms viable?

jan.eeckhout@globis.be — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:38:34 GMT

At our company, we developed a WinRT app (Windows 8.1) that uses our main application as a backend. This code is written in C#, using Crosslight to access our internal SQLite database (for offline usage), for IoC and as a base for the ViewModels (and thus supporting navigation between the different ViewModels).

One of our customers is asking for a version for iPad and/or Android devices. We are willing to develop a port of this app, but are wondering if we could do this with the use of Xamarin.Forms, as we would like to have a minimum of code differences between the different platforms.

Can we re-use the currently existing backend code (IoC, Database layer, ...) and the viewmodels using Crosslight, and have the frontend built with Xamarin.Forms?

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Porting Win RT app using Crosslight for backend code to iOS/Android - is Xamarin.Forms viable?

Porting Win RT app using Crosslight for backend code to iOS/Android - is Xamarin.Forms viable?