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Mastering Xamarin UI Development - Second Edition

By : Steven F. Daniel
Book Image

Mastering Xamarin UI Development - Second Edition

By: Steven F. Daniel

Overview of this book

This book will provide you with the knowledge and practical skills that are required to develop real-world Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms applications. You’ll learn how to create native Android app that will interact with the device camera and photo gallery, and then create a native iOS sliding tiles game. You will learn how to implement complex UI layouts and create customizable control elements based on the platform, using XAML and C# 7 code to interact with control elements within your XAML ContentPages. You’ll learn how to add location-based features by to your apps by creating a LocationService class and using the Xam.Plugin.Geolocator cross-platform library, that will be used to obtain the current device location. Next, you’ll learn how to work with and implement animations and visual effects within your UI using the PlatformEffects API, using C# code. At the end of this book, you’ll learn how to integrate Microsoft Azure App Services and use the Twitter APIs within your app. You will work with the Razor Templating Engine to build a book library HTML5 solution that will use a SQLite.net library to store, update, retrieve, and delete information within a local SQLite database. Finally, you will learn how to write unit tests using the NUnit and UITest frameworks.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Incorporating Microsoft Azure App Services

In the previous chapter, you learned about the Razor templating engine, the components of a Razor template solution, and the differences between using a static model class and the SQLite database model, before moving on to learning how to build a BookLibrary mobile solution using the power of Razor templates and how to use and define BookItem database models within your application.

You then learned how to incorporate the SQLite-net NuGet package that you will use in order to create a BookDatabase interface and class. As part of learning this, you also learned about a number of class instance methods that will communicate with our SQLite database so that you can create, update, retrieve, and delete book items. Lastly, you learned how to create the necessary Razor template pages that will integrate with our BookItem data model and how...