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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
7
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What is People Around Me doing?


Let's think about the needs first:

  • We need an application that finds others around us. Here is the list of requirements we need in our application: the application should provide a page that enables a user to enter their first name and last name, a check-in button, and a Map element.

  • When the user opens the application, the Map element displays people with pins via information received from the web backend.

  • When the user clicks the button after entering their first name and last name, the application should send the user's info (first name, last name, and geolocation) to the web end.

  • Development environment

This time we'll use Windows OS in the development computer and Visual Studio Community Edition as the development IDE.

If we already have Windows installed on our computer, we can skip the Installing Windows 10 section following. If we don't have Windows installed on our computer but have OS X installed, we can easily set up Windows inside of a Mac computer ...