Selecting an image from the gallery, or taking a picture with the device's camera is something that is very often used in mobile applications, and of course, your Xamarin Forms apps are often going to require this functionality, so this post will guide you through the steps necessary to implement this on a Xamarin Forms application for both Android and iOS. Preparing the project The first step is of course to create a Xamarin Forms project on either Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio for Mac, I am going to be using Visual Studio for Mac for this post. If you are not familiar with the process of creating a project, simply open Visual Studio, select the option to create a new project, and find the Cross-Platform option. There you will have to select Cross-Platform App (Xamarin.Forms), set a name, and in the next Window, select Blank App, the platforms that you want to support, Xamarin.Forms as the UI Technology, and.NET Standard as the Code Sharing Strategy. In the case of Visual Studio for Mac the steps are similar, you select the option to create a new project, and under the Multiplatform>App section, select 'Blank Forms App'. In the next window make sure you set the name for the project, select the target platforms, select Use Portable Class Library as the Code Sharing Strategy, and select 'Use XAML for user interface files'. Now that the project is created, you will need to add to the shared projects, in Visual Studio 2017 you can simply right-click on the solution and select 'Manage NuGet Packages for Solution', in Visual Studio for Mac you will need to go to each of the projects, right-click on their Packages folder, and select 'Add packages'.

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On either IDE, simply search for 'Media.Plugin' in the window that is opened when you select the corresponding option mentioned above, select the package and install it. On Visual Studio 2017, here is where you can select all the projects so the package is installed on all of them. The Functionality Using the CrossMedia Plugin by James Montemagno really makes this very easy, but there are still a few things that you should consider. Open docx in office 2011 for mac. First, you will need to mark your method as asynchronous, since selecting a picture from the gallery (or taking one for that matter) can take a while, and we will have to 'wait' for a method to actually return the image before being able to work with the image itself (obvious right?). You will also need to call the Initialize method from the CrossMedia class to establish the communication between the native project and the Media Plugin. Finally, you will need to establish some permission for your iOS app's Info.plist file, so the app gets access to the pictures.

On Windows, expand the iOS project, right-click on the Info.plist file and select 'open with' to later select 'Generic PList Editor'. On macOS, simply double-click and navigate to the Source tab (from the bottom of the window). All the way to the bottom of the List, on both IDEs, you will find a plus button. If you select it, a new value will be added, a 'Custom Property', but if you select it, a drop-down menu is activated, expand it and select 'Privacy - Photo Library Usage Description'. This value is necessary since iOS will help us ask the user permission to access the gallery, and a message, usually describing why we need that permission will be displayed. That message is the value that we need to set to the selected permission.

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Also please include your full build logs, test case (to reproduce) and all your version information. To get full build logs just set the log verbosity to diagnostic at the following locations: - On Visual Studio for Mac: Preferences > Projects > Build - On Visual Studio for Windows: Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Build and Run On Visual Studio Windows you also want to add `-v -v -v -v` to the mtouch additional arguments by right-clicking the project in the solution explorer and selecting `Properties`. Note: this is done automatically on Visual Studio for Mac when the log verbosity is set to diagnostic. The easiest way to get exact version information is to use the 'Xamarin Studio' menu, 'About Xamarin Studio' item, 'Show Details' button and copy/paste the version information (you can use the 'Copy Information' button).