Building your first iOS application

Launch Xamarin Studio and start a new solution. Just like in Visual Studio, there are lots of project types that can be created from the New Solution dialog. Xamarin Studio, formerly MonoDevelop, supports the development of many different types of projects such as C# applications targeting the Mono runtime or .NET Core, NUnit test projects, and even other languages besides C#, such as VB or C++.

Xamarin Studio supports the following project types for iOS:

• Single View App: This is the basic project type that sets up an iOS storyboard along with a single view and controller.

• Master Detail App: a project type containing a list of items that you can tap to view details about. On iPhone/iPod it will use multiple controls taking up the full screen area and the iOS UISplitViewController on iPad.

• Tabbed App: This is a project type that automatically sets up a UITabViewController for applications with a tab layout.

• Page-Based App: This project type automatically...