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Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development - Third Edition

By : Jonathan Peppers
Book Image

Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development - Third Edition

By: Jonathan Peppers

Overview of this book

Xamarin is a leading cross-platform application development tool used by top companies such as Coca-Cola, Honeywell, and Alaska Airlines to build apps. Version 4 features significant updates to the platform including the release of Xamarin.Forms 2.0 and improvements have been made to the iOS and Android designers. Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft so it is now a part of the Visual Studio family. This book will show you how to build applications for iOS, Android, and Windows. You will be walked through the process of creating an application that comes complete with a back-end web service and native features such as GPS location, camera, push notifications, and other core features. Additionally, you’ll learn how to use external libraries with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms to create user interfaces. This book also provides instructions for Visual Studio and Windows. This edition has been updated with new screenshots and detailed steps to provide you with a holistic overview of the new features in Xamarin 4.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development - Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

iOS provisioning


Apple has a strict process for deploying applications to iOS devices. While being quite convoluted and sometimes painful for developers, Apple can enable a certain level of security by preventing the average user from sideloading potentially malicious applications.

Before we can deploy our application to an iOS device, there are a few things we will need to set up in the iOS Dev Center. We will begin by creating an App ID or bundle ID for your account. This is the primary identifier for any iOS application.

Begin by navigating to http://developer.apple.com/account and perform the following steps:

  1. Sign in with your developer account.

  2. Click on Certificates, IDs, & Profiles on the right-hand-side navigation.

  3. Click on App IDs.

  4. Click on the plus button to add a new iOS App ID.

  5. In the Name field, enter something meaningful, such as YourCompanyNameWildcard.

  6. Select the Wildcard App ID radio button.

  7. In the Bundle ID field, select a reverse domain styled name for your company, such as...