Async Camera Pictures with Xamarin Forms

I have seen different approaches to using the device camera with Xamarin Forms. Here’s an example of how this might be implemented, with an async interface for easy async-await consumption in the shared Xamarin Forms part of the application. I will show the implementation details of the shared code and iOS version. The full example is available on https://github.com/jlandersen/xamarin-forms-camera that includes Windows Phone and Android parts as well. If you are unfamiliar with accessing native features of the different platforms, check out the official documentation. ...

June 18, 2015 · Jeppe Lund Andersen