Sport

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

This project excercises the following platforms, frameworks or features:

• Xamarin.iOS
  • Push notifications
• Xamarin.Android
  • Push notifications
• Xamarin.Forms
  • XAML
  • Bindings
  • Converters
  • Central Styles
  • Custom Renderers
  • Animations
  • IoC
  • Messaging Center
  • Custom Controls
  • MessageBar library
  • ImageCircle Plugin
  • Connectivity Plugin
• Xamarin Insights
• Xamarin Test Cloud
  • UITest
  • Extensions
  • single code-base for iOS & Android
• Azure Mobile Services
  • C# backend
  • cross-platform templated push notifications

This project employs a few patterns listed below:

• Enforces a ViewModel-per-Page concept
  • all ContentPage classes enforce a generic BaseViewModel type
  • automatically set as the binding context
• All tasks are proxied through a RunSafe method
  • verifies connectivity
  • gracefully handles and reports exceptions
• Leagues are assigned a randomly selected themed color at runtime

Keys

• 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
  • Insights integration has been abstracted if no valid key is detected - insert your own API key to enable Insights functionality
• If you wish to stand up your own backend, you will need to replace the existing fields in Keys.cs file for Azure, OAuth (Google), Xamarin Insights, Xamarin Test Cloud and Flickr
• To run the included UITest suite, you'll need to provide a test Google email address and password

Notes

• You will need a valid Google account to log into the application
• Parallax feature should be tested on a device - simulator will cause jitter

Copyright and license

• Code and documentation copyright 2015 Xamarin, Inc. Code released under the MIT license.