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Goal: to develop cross platform app for Android, Windows and iOS.

I have Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 7 including the Xamarin platform.

Problem is that when I create a new project with a blank app (Xamarin.forms portable), it doesn't create project for Windows phone. And when I create blank app (Xamarin.forms shared), it throws the following error:

This computer must be upgraded to windows 8.1 to load this project.

What do I have to do to create a cross platform app (that works on Android, iOS, Windows Phone) using Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2015.

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Btw why is this tagged with XamarinStudio when you are using VisualStudio? - David Karlaš

2 Answers

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You are getting error for Windows Phone project because Visual Studio(not Xamarin) doesn't support WP8/8.1 development on Windows 7 out of the box. Google "WP8 SDK on Windows 7".

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WP 8.1 SDK is required window 8.1 or later. Then the best solution is upgrade your OS to Window 8.1