Updating content for Xamarin

1

Hi everyone,

I recently bought a dev kit with 3 Proximity Beacons and have been writing Swift in Xcode to create small apps to test out how the beacons work - this has been a great experience so far.

I have been investigating using the beacons in Xamarin for a work project. The devs at my workplace have used Xamarin before and they are really interested to see how both Estimote Beacons and Xamarin can come together.

I tried to follow a tutorial: https://blog.xamarin.com/adding-real-world-context-with-estimote-beacons-and-stickers/ but the content was outdated.

I was wondering if anyone could recommend a more up-to-date resource for using Estimote Beacons in Xamarin.

I’ve also reached out to the Xamarin team but they haven’t responded as of yet.

Thanks I appreciate it,

Ally

2

Maybe the documentation of the Xamarin component wrapping our SDK will be more helpful:

https://components.xamarin.com/gettingstarted/estimotesdkios

3

I would also like some example code in Xamarin - I have followed the dev Getting Started guide and translated from Swift in C# as I’ve gone but can’t get my Xamarin app to detect the beacons.

Is there any Xamarin/C# sample app available?

Thanks,
Mark.

4

No worries, found some other code that worked.

The official swift example needs to be updated for iOS 10 please! It’s way out of date.

5

You should put it inside Device.BeginInvokeOnMainThread() like below

public void Update(string text)
{
Device.BeginInvokeOnMainThread(() =>
{
var layout = new StackLayout
{
Children =
{
new Label { Text = text }
}
};

this.Content = layout;

});
}

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