Hello all.
I am working on a group project for school, and Xamarin was brought up as a possible platform to use. My partners quickly settled with using Xamarin as the tool to solve a lot of our problems, but I do not believe they fully understood the main usage of the platform.
See, our school uses Windows 8.1 machines and our project is for the biology department, so it has to run on those machines. This means our primary target will be Windows 8.1 with mobile development as a plus. It doesn't appear that there is a whole lot of information on using Forms specifically when targeting the 8.1 desktop, but you can add a project to a Forms solution. I have tried to get a simple solution going to target Windows 8.1 using information located at http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/platform-features/windows/installation/ , but without too much success.
My question is:
Is a main target of Windows 8.1 desktop (in app form) viable when using Xamarin, or would we be better off using a more traditional platform like WPF?
We do plan on doing mobile development if we get through the desktop app with enough time before our deadline. It would be nice to write the app using shared code techniques, then use the shared base to add mobile support too.
Thanks,
Joshua