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Xamarin Essentials

By : Mark Reynolds
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Xamarin Essentials

By: Mark Reynolds

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<p>Xamarin is a Mono-based suite of products that allows developers to create iOS and Android apps using C# and .NET.</p> <p>This learning guide is your first port of call to quickly learn Xamarin. Starting with the foundations by understanding the architecture behind Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android, you will be guided through creating your first Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android applications. In addition, you will learn how to utilize frameworks such as MvvmCross and Xamarin.Forms to increase the amount of code reuse. To conclude your journey, you will be shown how to develop your own Xamarin apps for distribution.</p> <p>Xamarin Essentials is the guide to use in order to quickly gain practical working knowledge of developing robust commercial mobile apps using C# and sharing large portions of your code base across iOS and Android apps.</p>

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Xamarin Essentials
Mark Reynolds
Dec, 2014 | 234 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Xamarin Essentials
Xamarin Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Preface
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1
Xamarin and Mono – a Pathway to the Unnatural
Xamarin and Mono – a Pathway to the Unnatural
Understanding Mono
The Xamarin product suite
Evaluating whether Xamarin is the right tool
Learning C#
Installing Xamarin
Development environments
Summary
2
Demystifying Xamarin.iOS
Demystifying Xamarin.iOS
Xamarin.iOS and Ahead-of-Time compilation
Understanding Mono assemblies
Xamarin.iOS bindings
Creating binding libraries
Memory management
Limitations of using the AOT compilation
Generating code for XIB and storyboard files
Xamarin.iOS Designer
Summary
3
Demystifying Xamarin.Android
Demystifying Xamarin.Android
Mono CLR and Dalvik VM – working side by side
Xamarin.Android application packaging
Understanding Mono assemblies
Xamarin.Android bindings
Attributes for the ApplicationManifest.xml file
Editor for the ApplicationManifest.xml file
Garbage collection
Xamarin.Android Designer
Summary
4
Developing Your First iOS App with Xamarin.iOS
Developing Your First iOS App with Xamarin.iOS
The sample national parks app
Creating the sample app
Running and debugging within Xamarin Studio
Extending the sample app
Finishing the sample app
MonoTouch.Dialog
Summary
5
Developing Your First Android App with Xamarin.Android
Developing Your First Android App with Xamarin.Android
The sample app
Creating NationalParks.Droid
Reviewing the app
Running and debugging with Xamarin Studio
Extending NationalParks.Droid
Working with Xamarin.Android projects in Visual Studio
Reviewing the generated elements
Summary
6
The Sharing Game
The Sharing Game
Sharing and reuse
Old school source file linking
Portable Class Libraries
The pros and cons of the code-sharing techniques
Summary
7
Sharing with MvvmCross
Sharing with MvvmCross
Introducing MvvmCross
Creating NationalParks.MvvmCross
Considering the pros and cons
Summary
8
Sharing with Xamarin.Forms
Sharing with Xamarin.Forms
An insight into the Xamarin.Forms framework
Creating the NationalParks Xamarin.Forms app
Considering the pros and cons
Summary
9
Preparing Xamarin.iOS Apps for Distribution
Preparing Xamarin.iOS Apps for Distribution
Preparing for distribution
Distributing Xamarin.iOS apps
Summary
10
Preparing Xamarin.Android Apps for Distribution
Preparing Xamarin.Android Apps for Distribution
Preparing for a release APK
Publishing a release APK
App distribution options
Summary
Index
Index

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