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Is it possible to create an application in Xamarin Forms and run it on Windows 7? I can't find any documentation on the Xamarin website.
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Xamarin. Forms no longer supports Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1, or Windows 10 Mobile, but Xamarin. Forms applications do run on the Windows 10 desktop. There is also preview support for the Mac, WPF, GTK#, and Tizen platforms.
Xamarin. Forms applications can be written for the following operating systems: iOS 9 or higher. Android 4.4 (API 19) or higher (more details).
In May 2020, Microsoft announced that Xamarin. Forms, a major component of its mobile app development framework, would be deprecated in November 2021 in favour of a new . Net based product called MAUI - Multiform App User Interface.
If you're a die-hard Windows user, like me, you'll be excited to know that you can now build iOS application using Xamarin (and Xamarin. Forms) and Visual Studio, without having to buy or use a Mac. That's right for development, you no longer need to invest, or carry around, a Mac.
No, you can't run a Xamarin.Forms app on Windows 7. Xamarin.Forms is a UI abstraction layer for
It's not compatible to WPF or anything else for Windows Desktop applications. You can generally create Xamarin.Forms apps for Windows 8.0 and later by targetting WindowsRT or UWP. Universal Windows applications can run in a resizable window on a Windows 10 desktop PC.
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Not directly and it will not be supported as Windows 7 is officially a legacy platform.
However.
https://github.com/jvlppm/xamarin-forms-wpf is one (orphaned?) project which was mentioned in a Xamarin Forums thread on Forms for Desktop
As Forms was made open source you can bet there will be even more projects trying to do this. Conceptually, it's a fairly straightforward remapping but I wouldn't do it unless someone hired me who had a strong need to support Windows 7.
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