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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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Xamarin 4 By Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Chapter 3. Exploring the UI Controls

Generally, we need to develop apps for multiple platforms, and often, a mobile project starts with the assumption that an app needs to look the same on each platform.

What is wrong with this approach?

We will discover this later in the chapter as we learn how to use shared code in order to suit platform-specific behaviors.DatePicker is an element that allows the user to input a date with

In Xamarin.Forms, UI controls are known as Views. We'll explore Views later in this chapter, starting with Pages and Layouts.