Xamarin.Forms Projects

Configuring Xamarin.Essentials on Android

We need to initialize Xamarin.Essentials on Android by calling an initialization method. We do this by going through the following steps:

1. In the Android project, open the MainActivity.cs file.
2. Add the code in bold under the global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init method:

protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    TabLayoutResource = Resource.Layout.Tabbar;
    ToolbarResource = Resource.Layout.Toolbar;

    base.OnCreate(savedInstanceState);

    global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(this, savedInstanceState);
    Xamarin.Essentials.Platform.Init(this, savedInstanceState);
    
    LoadApplication(new App());
}

That's it. We are all good to go.