Sport is a Xamarin.Forms app initially built for Xamarin employees as a way to facilitate leaderboards for a few ping-pong tables and darts we have around the office. Athletes can join leagues, get ranked and challenge other athletes to move up the ladder. As of 8/30/2015, Sport features 93.6% code share (3.3% iOS / 3.1% Android).
This is an example of an iOS athlete and an Android athlete conducting a challenge
- Xamarin.iOS
- Xamarin.Android
- Xamarin.Forms
- XAML
- Bindings
- Converters
- Central Styles
- Custom Renderers
- Animations
- IoC
- Messaging Center
- Custom Controls
- Cross Plugins
- HockeyApp Crash Reporting
- Xamarin Test Cloud
- UITest
- Extensions
- Single code-base for iOS & Android
- Azure Mobile Services
- C# backend
- WebAPI
- Entity Framework
- Offline Sync
- Cross-platform templated push notifications
- Enforces a ViewModel-per-Page concept
- all
ContentPageclasses enforce a genericBaseViewModeltype - automatically set as the binding context
- all
- All tasks are proxied through a
RunSafemethod- verifies connectivity
- gracefully handles and reports exceptions
- Leagues are assigned a randomly selected themed color at runtime
- Elo algorithm used to determine athlete's rating which is used to rank the leaderboard
- Default keys have been provided to connect to an existing Azure instance
- You will need to create your own app in Google Developer Console to generate a GCM Sender ID if you wish to test out push notifications
- If you wish to stand up your own backend, you will need to replace the existing fields in Keys.cs file for HockeyApp App IDs.
- To run the included UITest suite, you'll need to provide a test Google email address and password
- You will need a valid Google account to log into the application
- Parallax feature should be tested on a device - simulator will cause jitter
- Code and documentation copyright 2016 Microsoft Corp. Code released under the MIT license.