Check Battery Status In Xamarin iOS

Introduction

Xamarin is a platform to develop cross-platform and multi-platform apps (for example, Windows phone, Android and iOS). In Xamarin platform, the code sharing concept is used. In Xamarin Studio, Visual Studio is also available.

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Prerequisites

Xamarin Studio.
Xcode.

The steps given below are required to be followed in order to check battery status in Xamarin iOS, using Xamarin Studio.

Step 1

Go to Xamarin Studio.

Click New Solution—> select iOS—>select App--> choose Single View App. Afterwards, click Next.

Step 2

In this step, configure your app. Give the app name (Ex:sample), Organization Identifier. Afterwards, click Next.

Step 3

In this step, give your project name (Ex: Sample) and solution name (Ex: Sample). Give the path of your project. Afterwards, click Create.

Step 4

Subsequently, go to the solution. In the solution, get all the files and sources in your project. Now, select Main.storyboard and double click to open Main.storyboard page.

Step 5

After opening the Main.storyboard, you can design the page, as per your desire.

Step 6

In this step, add one component in your project.

Battery Plugin

Go to Solution Explorer—>Components—>Right click—>Get More Components.

Now, choose Battery Plugin component. Afterwards, click Add to App.

Step 7

In this step, design your app, using storyboard and toolbox.

Button(btnCheck)
Label(lblLevel)
Label(lblStatus)
Label(lblIsLow)

Step 8

In this step, go to the ViewController.cs page. Write the code given below.

ViewController.cs

using System;
using UIKit;
using Battery.Plugin;
namespace XamariniOSBatteryComponent {
public partial class ViewController: UIViewController {
protected ViewController(IntPtr handle): base(handle) {
// Note: this .ctor should not contain any initialization logic.
}
public override void ViewDidLoad() {
base.ViewDidLoad();
// Perform any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}
partial void BtnGet_TouchUpInside(UIButton sender) {
lblLevel.Text = "Level:" + CrossBattery.Current.RemainingChargePercent;
lblStatus.Text = "Status:" + CrossBattery.Current.Status.ToString();
lblIsLow.Text = "IsLow:" + ((CrossBattery.Current.RemainingChargePercent >= 15) ? "YES" : "NO");
}
public override void DidReceiveMemoryWarning() {
base.DidReceiveMemoryWarning();
// Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
}
}
}

Step 9

Now, go to Run option, choose Debug, the list of iPhone and iPad Simulators, which are available. You can choose any one Simulator and run it.

Output

After afew seconds, the app will start running on your iPhone Simulator.You will see your app working successfully. You can click Check button. The battery status will be shown successfully.

Summary

This was the process of how to check battery status in Xamarin iOS, using Xamarin Studio.