Building cross platform mobile applications using Xamarin is a good way for a .NET developer to become familiar with the architecture and frameworks of the iOS and Android platforms without getting impeded by language syntax and development tools.
This solution demonstrates a simple movie explorer app, which lets you view a collection of movies, select a movie to view details, play trailers, view similar movies and optionally save movies to your favorites list.
See the readme for more detailed notes. This sample app uses the TMDb API (https://www.themoviedb.org).