UrhoSharp – Add 3D and Augmented Reality to your Xamarin apps

Have you ever dreamed to create a 3D game? Or maybe an Augmented Reality app? With Xamarin and UrhoSharp it couldn’t be easier.

UPDATE

The new UrhoSharp tutorial (with source code) is available here:https://www.xamarinexpert.it/blog/urhosharp-tutorial-how-to-create-your-first-project-with-xamarin-forms/

UrhoSharp

UrhoSharp is a lightweight Game Engine suitable for using with C# and F# to create games that run on Android, iOS, Mac, Windows and Unix. The game engine is available as a portable class library, allowing your game code to be written once and shared across all platforms. UrhoSharp is powered by Urho3D (http://urho3d.github.io/), a game engine that has been under development for more than a decade.The idea is the same as Xamarin: you write your code once and your app will run on many different platforms. In this case:

• Android
• iOS
• Mac
• Windows (WPF and UWP so it will run also on Windows phones)
• Unix

After several months of silence UrhoSharp has come back strongly with a new release (v.1.8.91) tha fixes many bugs and updates this extremely powerful engine.The biggest news are:

• Updated to Urho3D 1.7
• ARKit and ARCore components
• Fixed major Android and iOS crashes
• Optional DirectX11 backend for Windows
• UWP 64bit support (and .NET Native toolchain)

The amazing thing is that with UrhoSharp you can create your 2D/3D games and also create amazing Augmented Reality apps thanks to support to ARKit (iOS) and ARCore (Android).

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I’m writing a tutorial on how to use UrhoSharp and I’ll publish it here as soon as it ready.

Meanwhile you can find more info on the official Xamarin website: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/urhosharp/introduction/

For a beginner’s guide on how to create a Xamarin.Forms app you can read this tutorial: http://www.xamarinexpert.it/2018/03/03/xamarin-forms-a-guide-for-beginners/