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Xamarin 4 By Example

By : Engin Polat, Mark Radacz
Book Image

Xamarin 4 By Example

By: Engin Polat, Mark Radacz

Overview of this book

The mobile app market is increasing exponentially every year. Xamarin Studio with its modern and powerful IDEs makes creating applications a lot easier by simplifying the development process. Xamarin will allow you and your team to create native applications by taking advantage of one of the most evolved programming language in the world: C#. This book will provide you with the basic skills you need to start developing mobile apps using C# and Xamarin. By working through the examples in each chapter, you will gain hands-on experience of creating a complete app that is fully functional by all means. Finally, you will learn to publish the app you created on the app market. Each project in this book will take you one step closer to becoming a professional app developer.

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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Xamarin 4 By Example
Xamarin 4 By Example
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Xamarin
Getting Started with Xamarin
Take off
Xamarin Studio
Mobile Development Software Development Lifecycle
Summary
2
Sharing Code between Platforms
Sharing Code between Platforms
Shared Project
Portable Class Library
MVVM pattern a quick overview of theory
MVVM pattern example – split the bill
Summary
3
Exploring the UI Controls
Exploring the UI Controls
The user's point of view
Xamarin.Forms
Rendering Model
The Application class
Pages
Layouts
Views
Cells
Summary
4
Data – the Monkeys Catalog
Data – the Monkeys Catalog
Mobile architectural pattern
Inside the layers
The Monkeys catalog
5
Cloud and Async Communication
Cloud and Async Communication
Communication
Example project - Xamarin Fast Food
Services
Example project Weather
Ideas
Summary
6
Custom Renderers
Custom Renderers
Rendering model
App linking example
Summary
7
Monkey Puzzle Game – Processing Images
Monkey Puzzle Game – Processing Images
Monkey Puzzle Game
Summary
8
The People Around Me Application
The People Around Me Application
What is People Around Me doing?
Creating the project
Summary
9
Testing – Spot the bugs
Testing – Spot the bugs
Debugging a Xamarin project
Xamarin Profiler
The Xamarin.UITest framework
Summary
10
Publishing to the Market
Publishing to the Market
What is store?
Publishing to the Apple App Store
Publishing to the Google Play Store
Publishing to the Windows Store
Summary

Summary

We have explored the different options we have to create cross-platform libraries using Xamarin.

We've learned how to develop a cross-platform extension method and how to read the code written by others, exploring some of the best practices for developing mobile applications.

We've overviewed Shared Projects, and Portable Class Libraries, and we've overviewed the Model-View-ViewModel Architectural Pattern, and started developing it from the Core library.

Are we ready to explore all of the capabilities that Xamarin.Forms offers us?

In the next chapter, we'll cover all the UI controls, Page types, and Layout types that come with Xamarin.Forms.

Also we'll discover rendering mechanics and the application class in Xamarin.Forms.

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