devnight_setup.md

Development Night

Windows

Xamarin + Visual Studio + Android SDK

• Go grab the installer from https://www.xamarin.com/download

  If you don't already have Visual studio installed make sure to grab the version of the installer with Visual Studio Bundled

  Just accept all the options when you install it for windows make sure you have the Android SDK (We'll be using API 23, which should be installed by default)

  You will need to make sure you have the visual studio extensions installed, try following the tutorial to get a blank app set up to make sure it's all working and if that doesn't work consult this link: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/getting_started/visual_studio_with_xamarin/troubleshooting/missing-vs-extensions/

HAXM

• Assuming you want to emulate android on windows you will need HAXM to make it fast, download and install it from the zip: https://software.intel.com/en-us/android/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager

  For some reason you can't install it through the android SDK on windows so you'll have to do it like this.

OSX

• Go grab the installer from https://www.xamarin.com/download and install

  You will also need to install Xcode from the app store if you want to simulate iOS

  Xamarin and the Android/iOS components can also be grabbed from homebrew if you feel so inclined to do it like that

Both Windows & OSX

Github

• If you haven't already, go sign up for a github account and post you name on the github post in the event so we can give you access to the repository.

  Go get yourself an account https://github.com/

GitKraken

• Feel free to install the git-bash of your preferred git client, as we'll be using git + github for version control, but if you're more of a GUI person I highly recommend GitKraken, you can even sign in with your github account so we don't have to waste time getting SSH set up.

  Download from https://www.gitkraken.com

Run a 'helloworld' app

• Should you have time and feel so inclined, make sure you can setup an new project and run just the basic helloworld app (running a newly created bare project) if you can do this it will mean we save a lot of setup time. https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/getting-started/hello-xamarin-forms/quickstart/