In software development, IoC and dependency injection solve many problems. In the world of mobile development, particularly multi-platform mobile development, they provide a great pattern to handle platform- and device-specific code. One of the most important aspects of multi-platform mobile development is the idea of sharing code. Not only does development become easier and quicker when code can be shared across apps and platforms, but so does maintenance, management, feature parity, and so on. However, there are always parts of an app's code base that simply cannot be shared due to its strict tie-in with the platform's APIs. In most cases, an app's user interface represents a large portion of this non-sharable code. It is because of this that the MVVM pattern makes so much sense in multi-platform mobile...
Mastering Xamarin.Forms - Second Edition
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Overview of this book
Discover how to extend and build upon the components of the Xamarin.Forms toolkit to develop effective, robust mobile app architecture. Starting with an app built with the basics of the Xamarin.Forms toolkit, we'll go step by step through several advanced topics to create a solution architecture rich with the benefits of good design patterns and best practices.
We'll start by introducing a core separation between the app's user interface and the app's business logic by applying the MVVM pattern and data-binding. Then we will focus on building out a layer of plugin-like services that handle platform-specific utilities such as navigation and geo-location, as well as how to loosely use these services in the app with inversion of control and dependency injection. Next we'll connect the app to a live web-based API and set up offline synchronization. Then, we'll dive into testing the app logic through unit tests. Finally, we will setup Visual Studio App Center to automate building, testing, distributing and monitoring the app.
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Mastering Xamarin.Forms - Second Edition
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started
MVVM and Data Binding
Navigation
Platform Specific Services and Dependency Injection
User Interface
API Data Access
Authentication
Testing
App Monitoring
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