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Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

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Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

Overview of this book

The main goal of this book is to equip you with the required know-how to successfully analyze, develop, and manage Xamarin cross-platform projects using the most efficient, robust, and scalable implementation patterns. This book starts with general topics such as memory management, asynchronous programming, local storage, and networking, and later moves onto platform-specific features. During this transition, you will learn about key tools to leverage the patterns described, as well as advanced implementation strategies and features. The book also presents User Interface design and implementation concepts on Android and iOS platforms from a Xamarin and cross-platform perspective, with the goal to create a consistent but native UI experience. Finally, we show you the toolset for application lifecycle management to help you prepare the development pipeline to manage and see cross-platform projects through to public or private release.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Development pipeline


The development pipeline can be described as the virtual production line that steers a project from a mere bundle of business requirements to the consumers. Stakeholders that are part of this pipeline include, but are not limited to, business proxies, developers, the QA team, the release and configuration team, and finally the consumers themselves. Each stakeholder in this production line assumes different responsibilities, and they should all function in harmony. Hence, having an efficient, healthy, and preferably automated pipeline that is going to provide the communication and transfer of deliverables between units is vital for the success of a project.

In the Agile project management framework, the development pipeline is cyclical rather than a linear delivery queue. In the application life cycle, requirements are inserted continuously into a backlog. The backlog leads to a planning and development phase, which is followed by testing and QA. Once the production-ready...