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Download App

The Download tab, groups together different important settings for your Grial solution and is the place where you can download the Grial code.

Download tab

Solution Settings

Allows configuring the names used for the Visual Studio solution of your application. This includes the solution name, projects names, namespaces and output assemblies.

Visual Studio Solution Information

By default, all the names are inferred from the app name, but you can change that individually for Solution Name, Project Name, Assembly Name and Namespace.

Moreover, you can set different names per platform by unchecking the Use same settings for all platforms checkbox:

Visual Studio Solution Information

App Settings

Also under the Download Tab you will find the app settings.

Package Names and App Names

Culture Settings

The culture settings are displayed at the bottom of the page.

You can configure different cultures for your application and set an application name for each supported culture. Besides setting culture specific names for the app, adding a new culture implies that a .resx file will be created for each culture.

The following image illustrates an app with English (default) and Spanish cultures.

Localizing app name on Grial Web Admin

When you click on the Change cultures... button the following dialog will be presented allowing to remove/add one or more cultures.

Localizing app name on Grial Web Admin

License Detail

When you acquire your Grial license, you get an email with details about your purchase, but sometimes that is not easy to find.

If you want to retrieve that info easily inside Grial Web Admin, -typically to get your purchase order number- you can check it under the Download Tab on the bottom right corner.

License detail

You will find an overview of your purchase information and license status.

License detail

Additionally, you can find at the top left corner (next to app name) the license type:

License type detail

Downloading

Once you have completed all the steps you will be able to see on the right a tree view representation of your Grial Solution you are about to download:

Visual Studio Solution tree view

You will see all the pre-configured settings for your new app. You can change them at any time. To download, simply choose any of the available options:

  • Starter Solution - Xamarin.Forms: This is a Grial solution, which one is ready to develop with Xamarin.Forms, containing just the selected pages.
  • Full Solution - Xamarin.Forms: This is a Grial solution, which one is ready to develop with Xamarin.Forms, containing ALL the available pages for your license.
  • Full Solution - .NET MAUI: This is a Grial solution, which one is ready to develop with .NET MAUI, containing ALL the available pages for your license.
Preparing your Grial customized solution to download

After you choose which solution you want to download, you will see a dialog showing more options, such as choosing the Grial packages version and adding Gorilla SDK preconfigured:

Grial 4 download dialog

Choosing Grial Packages Version

You can choose your Grial packages version easily as well as read the release notes of each version:

Grial 4 download dialog

When you finally download, you will see a dialog with info about configuring the nuget sources in Visual Studio for Grial packages:

Grial 4 download dialog