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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

Learning Windows Azure


Windows Azure is an excellent cloud platform released by Microsoft in 2010. Azure provides both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) for building modern web applications and services. This means that it provides you the access directly to virtual machines within which you can deploy any operating system or software of your choice. This is known as IaaS. Azure also provides multiple platforms for building applications, such as Azure Web Apps or SQL Azure. These platforms are known as PaaS, since you deploy your software at a high level and do not have to deal directly with virtual machines or manage software upgrades.

Let's go over the following more common services provided by Windows Azure:

  • Virtual Machines: Azure provides you the access to virtual machines of all sizes. You can install practically any operating system of your choice; there are many premade distributions to choose from within Azure's gallery.

  • Web Apps: You can deploy...