Creating A Switch In Xamarin Android App Using Visual Studio 2015

Introduction

Xamarin is a platform for developing cross-platform and multi-platform apps (Ex. Windows phone, Android, iOS). In Xamarin platform, code sharing concept is used. The Xamarin Studio is available in Visual Studio also.

The Switch is used to change a setting between two states (ON and OFF).

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2015 update 3

The following steps are needed to be followed in order to create a Switch in Xamarin Android app, using Visual Studio 2015.

Step 1

Click File--> New--> Project, or click (Ctrl+Shift+N) to open the list of different project types.



Step 2

Select Installed -->Templates -->Visual C# --> Android -->choose Blank App (Android).

Next, give your Android app a name (Ex:sample) and give path of your project. Click OK.



Step 3

Now, go to the Solution Explorer, select Resource-->Layout--> double click to open Main.axml page. You can either select designer or source to design your application's homepage.



Step 4

In the main page designer, delete the default "Hello World" button. Go to the source panel and remove the button coding.



Now, delete the C# button action code from MainActivity.cs page.

Step 5

Next, go to the toolbox window and scroll down. Drag and drop the Switch on the page, wherever you want.



Step 6

Next, go to the properties window and edit the Switch Text, Id and checked properties values.

(Ex: android:text="Are you love Xamarin...?" android:id="@+id/monitored_switch" android:checked="true").



Step 7

In this step, edit the Switch textOn and textOff value (Ex: android:textOn="On" android:textOff="Off" ).



Step 8

In this step, you will see the Main.axml page source panel. Note the id value.

Main.axml