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Cross-platform UI Development with Xamarin.Forms

Cross-platform UI Development with Xamarin.Forms

By : Paul Johnson
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Cross-platform UI Development with Xamarin.Forms

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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Cross-platform UI Development with Xamarin.Forms
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Cross-platform UI Development with Xamarin.Forms
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
Acknowledgments
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Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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In the Beginning…
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In the Beginning…
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Application planning
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Summary
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Let's Get the Party Started
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Let's Get the Party Started
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What is Xamarin Forms?
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Instantiating Xamarin Forms within an app
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Dependency injection
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Customizing the UI
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Gestures, maps, and WebViews
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Summary
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Making It Look Pretty and Logging In
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Making It Look Pretty and Logging In
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Introducing the standard UI login experience
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Summary
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Making Your Application Portable
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Making Your Application Portable
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PCLs – the pros and cons
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Writing your PCL library
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Other options for PCL
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Summary
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Data, Generics, and Making Sense of Information
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Data, Generics, and Making Sense of Information
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A history lesson
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.NET generics
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LINQ me up baby – yeah!
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The database helper class
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Too much information!
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Summary
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A View to a Kill
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A View to a Kill
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Touch-a-touch-a-touch me
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References
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Connect Me to Your Other Services
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Connect Me to Your Other Services
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Let's take a REST
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The Windows Communication Framework
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Summary
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References
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What a Bind!
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What a Bind!
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A bit of a history lesson
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Binding the mobile arena
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Summary
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Addressing the Issue
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Addressing the Issue
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Addressing issues
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Summary
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This is the World Calling…
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This is the World Calling…
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Using GPS and push notifications
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Summary
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A Portable Settings Class
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A Portable Settings Class
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The native platform storage
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Constructing a persistent and cross-platform settings system
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Is there an alternative?
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Summary
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Xamarin Forms Labs
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Xamarin Forms Labs
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What is Xamarin Forms Labs?
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Summary
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Social Media into the Mix
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Social Media into the Mix
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Connect me up, Scotty
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Setting up the event system and interface
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Setting up your Android code
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Setting up iOS
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Setting up Windows Phone
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Adding social media to your app
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OAuth1 for Twitter
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Using OAuth2
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The user interface
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References
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Bringing It All Together
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Bringing It All Together
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Setting up Azure
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Setting up the application
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The Azure Storage
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The messenger application
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And that's it!
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Index

Chapter 3. Making It Look Pretty and Logging In

While Xamarin.Forms provides the basics of a user interface experience, it provides just that—a very basic user interface, functional but plain. With a bit of effort though, it is possible to produce custom UI components across the various mobile platforms.

In this chapter we shall:

  • Understand how Xamarin Forms performs the UI tasks

  • Look at the customization of the user interface using a custom renderer

  • Apply these changes to allow for an improved user login experience

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