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Xamarin Cross-platform Application Development - Second Edition

By : Jonathan Peppers
Book Image

Xamarin Cross-platform Application Development - Second Edition

By: Jonathan Peppers

Overview of this book

<p>Developing a mobile application for just one platform is becoming a thing of the past. Companies expect their apps to be supported on both iOS and Android, while leveraging the best native features on both. Xamarin's tools help ease this problem by giving developers a single toolset to target both platforms.</p> <p>This book is a step-by-step guide to building real-world applications for iOS and Android. The book walks you through building a chat application, complete with a backend web service and native features such as GPS location, camera, and push notifications. Additionally, you'll learn how to use external libraries with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms to create shared user interfaces and make app-store-ready applications. This second edition has been updated with new screenshots and detailed steps to provide you with a holistic overview of the new features incorporated in Xamarin 3. By the end of the book, you will have gained expertise to build on the concepts learned and effectively develop a market-ready cross-platform application.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Xamarin Cross-platform Application Development Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding the basics of an iOS app


Before we start developing our app, let's review the main settings of the application. Apple uses a file named Info.plist to store important information about any iOS app. These settings are used when an iOS application is installed on a device by the Apple App Store. We will begin development on any new iOS application by filling out the information in this file.

Xamarin Studio provides a neat menu to modify values in the Info.plist file, as shown in the following screenshot:

The most important settings are as follows:

  • Application Name: This is the title below an app's icon in iOS. Note that this is not the same as the official name of your app in the iOS App Store.

  • Bundle Identifier: This is your app's bundle identifier or bundle ID. It is a unique name to identify your application. The convention is to use a reverse domain naming style beginning with your company name, such as com.packt.xamchat.

  • Version: This is a version number for your application...