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 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
• 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.