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Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

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Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

Overview of this book

The main goal of this book is to equip you with the required know-how to successfully analyze, develop, and manage Xamarin cross-platform projects using the most efficient, robust, and scalable implementation patterns. This book starts with general topics such as memory management, asynchronous programming, local storage, and networking, and later moves onto platform-specific features. During this transition, you will learn about key tools to leverage the patterns described, as well as advanced implementation strategies and features. The book also presents User Interface design and implementation concepts on Android and iOS platforms from a Xamarin and cross-platform perspective, with the goal to create a consistent but native UI experience. Finally, we show you the toolset for application lifecycle management to help you prepare the development pipeline to manage and see cross-platform projects through to public or private release.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Overall, asynchronous/concurrent implementation patterns and background tasks allow the developers to push the heavy-lifting away from the UI thread and create responsive applications in the single-threaded paradigm of modern mobile applications.

The Task-based Asynchronous Pattern provides an efficient and scalable way to implement asynchronous operations with ease. Moreover, progress, cancellation, and concurrent collections help monitor, scale, and manage the execution of these asynchronous blocks while providing a way to cooperate between each other. Implementing these blocks, developers do not need to carry the burden of threads, synchronization, and scaling the threads according to the hardware resources.

After analyzing memory and CPU-related topics so far in this book, in the next chapter we will discuss local storage and how to use it efficiently.