Build a cross platform mobile app for your chat bot.
Xamarin.Forms + Bot Framework + MVVM
With Microsoft’s Botframework, you can build a chat bot which runs on several platforms (Social media, websites…). Now think about Xamarin.Forms with it, you can build apps which run on several platforms too (iOS, Android, UWP…). Thanks to the DirectLineClient, we can build custom clients for our bots. In our case, the client will be a Xamarin.Forms app. (meaning your bot can be available on iOS, UWP, Android… and also Facebook, Skype Telegram…) This means you can be everywhere with just a bit of code and this is Awesome!
Our main objective
Our main objective in this tutorial is to build a simple Xamarin.Forms application which will communicate with an already existing chat bot (built with the Botframework and hosted on Azure). All that using the MVVM design pattern.
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