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December 14th, 2016

Introducing the BikeRider Xamarin.Forms Sample App

Pierce Boggan

Senior Program Manager

At Microsoft Connect(); 2016, we demoed mobile apps for BikeSharing360, a fictional company that allows users to rent bikes located throughout New York City and Seattle. BikeRider, the consumer mobile app for BikeSharing360, is a beautiful native mobile app for iOS, Android, and Windows built with Xamarin.Forms. Today, we are happy to announce the open-sourcing of the BikeRider app for you to dive into and explore.

Explore the BikeRider Source Code

The BikeRider app is built entirely with Xamarin.Forms, and contains over 93% code sharing across iOS, Android, and Windows 10, and showcases some awesome features, including:

XAML UI
Animations
Converters
Custom Controls
Custom Renderers
Data Binding
Effects
Inversion of Control (IoC) pattern
MVVM pattern
Messaging Center
Native View Declaration
Plugins for Xamarin
Styles

Head over to GitHub to pull down the source code and start exploring!

Author

Pierce Boggan

Senior Program Manager

Pierce is a Senior Program Manager on the Mobile Developer Tools team at Microsoft. He is responsible for IDE tooling for mobile developers in Visual Studio (Xamarin) and Visual Studio Code (React Native and Cordova). In his free time, Pierce enjoys playing ultimate, backpacking, and spending way too much time on side projects he will never finish.