Learning Xamarin: Adding Photos

In this post I return to the EvalUate application I was building camera photoearlier in this series

We’re going to add the ability to take a photo of the item you are thinking about buying.  It turns out there are a number of different ways to access the camera, but I was looking for one that would work and play well with Xamarin Forms. 

I’m pleased to say that the Xamarin Forms Labs, (XFL) an open source project, has a Camera service (though it is in Beta). 

XFL looks very exciting and much has been written about it already, though it is comparatively new, with Google returning over 18,000 hits on an exact match.  A number of us at Falafel Software will be blogging about various features from XFL in coming weeks.

Using the Camera with the Xamarin Forms Library

XFL is, as I say, quite young, and so the documentation is not 100% — but there is a wiki and there are samples.  I decided to dive in and modify EvalUate to add the ability to take a picture when you add a new “item.”  Continued here

About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET will be released early in 2025. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Microsoft MVP.
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