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Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook

By : Matthew Leibowitz
Book Image

Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook

By: Matthew Leibowitz

Overview of this book

Xamarin is used by developers to write native iOS, Android, and Windows apps with native user interfaces and share code across multiple platforms not just on mobile devices, but on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Developing apps with Xamarin.Android allows you to use and re-use your code and your skills on different platforms, making you more productive in any development. Although it’s not a write-once-run-anywhere framework, Xamarin provides native platform integration and optimizations. There is no middleware; Xamarin.Android talks directly to the system, taking your C# and F# code directly to the low levels. This book will provide you with the necessary knowledge and skills to be part of the mobile development era using C#. Covering a wide range of recipes such as creating a simple application and using device features effectively, it will be your companion to the complete application development cycle. Starting with installing the necessary tools, you will be guided on everything you need to develop an application ready to be deployed. You will learn the best practices for interacting with the device hardware, such as GPS, NFC, and Bluetooth. Furthermore, you will be able to manage multimedia resources such as photos and videos captured with the device camera, and so much more! By the end of this book, you will be able to create Android apps as a result of learning and implementing pro-level practices, techniques, and solutions. This book will ascertain a seamless and successful app building experience.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Everybody likes to go shopping—getting something new and shiny to play with is a great feeling. Unfortunately, shopping requires money, and nobody likes to give that up. However, in the end, people will go to work, earn money, and then go shopping anyway—whether it be to provide food to survive or things for entertainment, everybody goes shopping.

App developers can capitalize on this fact not only to provide users with cool features and apps for their devices but also to make money. One approach to making money is by asking the users to pay for the app before they can use it. Although this is very common, many users do not like the fact that they are required to spend money before getting to use the product.

Another approach is to give the app to the users for free, and then either restrict functionality until the user pays or give the user extra functionality when they pay. Either approach results in the user getting more when they pay. The app can keep giving them more as they...