It’s possible that with last week’s announcement Windows may no longer be the Cinderella alongside iOS and Android in the Xamarin Forms world. For the moment there are gaps to be filled and one of these is in Maps support.
Xamarin Forms Maps has only (so far) shipped with a renderer for Windows Phone Silverlight apps. Some time ago I released a Windows Phone 8.1 Renderer via NuGet. The source is on GitHub here. Subsequently Windows 8 and Windows 10 support has been added. The latest stable NuGet package includes the Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 UWP renderers. I decided not to include Windows 8.1 because it is a more complicated deployment as it requires the Bing Maps Extension SDK and has to be built for a specific architecture rather than a single “Any CPU” library.
This new version is built against the latest Xamarin Forms Maps component (v2.1.0). It has some bug fixes around MoveToRegion and Clicked events for Pins. A future update will add support for IsShowingUser. Once again a single line of code is required in your Windows project App.xaml.cs to initialize the support, after which the map renderer and geocoder will just work:-
InTheHand.FormsMaps.Init(<maps_token>);
The token can be substituted with null for debugging purposes (the map control will display a banner).
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