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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

Backup/Roaming


Xamarin target platforms both offer cloud sync and backup mechanisms. While the Android backup strategy is more of an async background process where backup and restore operations have to be initiated by the calling application, the iOS and iCloud roaming strategy provides seamless integration to the filesystem.

Android and Backup API

Android Backup API and Google-provided backup transport services provide an easily accessible way for application developers to back up and restore application data to remote cloud storage. It is possible to restore data after a factory reset or one device to another using the APIs provided by the BackupManager.

Backup operations are executed by the BackupManager in Android runtime and operations related to the application data are delegated to the BackupAgent registered in the application manifest. It is important to remember the fact that your application has to be registered in the Android Backup Service. It is crucial to include the backup service...