CODEWITHSUNDEEP
xamarin.formslocation-services
user1667474
user1667474

Reputation: 819

Tutorials for Mobile Services for Xamarin.Forms - get device location

I am looking for instructions on using Mobile Services for Xamarin.Forms? I am especially interested in how to get the device's current location. I know that there is sample code here, https://github.com/aritchie/acr-xamarin-forms, that showcases everything that you can do with the library, the only problem being it is way too complicated for a newbie to understand, and there are no comments

Links to any comprehensive tutes or sample code with comments would be appreciated. I have searched but have not come up with anything good.

Cheers

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3107

Answers (2)

Burf2000
Burf2000

Reputation: 5203

If you want to find out a users location via shared code, look at the Geolocator plugin from the component store. super easy to use

Upvotes: 1

Pete
Pete

Reputation: 4746

There are a good set of examples for learning Xamarin.Forms with some descriptions at the following link http://blog.falafel.com/learning-xamarin/.

With Xamarin.Forms being rather new you will have to search around for good snippets etc however.

There are a number of projects for Xamarin.Forms in https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples. Try to looking at the following two for easier to understand short examples in Xamarin.Forms:-

https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/tree/master/FormsGallery

https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/tree/master/XAMLSamples

The examples are short enough that should help you to learn from them.

There is a specific map related example at the following that also shows your current location on a map that you may like to look at further also:-

https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/tree/8b9bbe853263f1eb29faca499619b0b757d8fbfd/WorkingWithMaps

Run the applications, make small modifications and experiment - a great way to learning.

Have fun!

Upvotes: 4

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