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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

Line of Business apps


Line of Business applications, or LOB apps, is a term generally used synonymously with enterprise applications. These applications are either developed in-house, or outsourced for the specific needs of a company. In other words, LOB apps can be categorized as business rather than consumer applications. They are generally domain-specific and target a small group with a specific need.

Private channel distribution (Android)

One way of distributing LOB applications built for Android platform is to use the Google Play private channels. Applications distributed through these channels are restricted to users of a specific domain. In order to use private channels, one needs to have a subscription to either Google Play for Work, Google Apps for Business, Education, or Government.

While app pricing and other distribution settings may still apply to these private apps, the testing and validation steps are skipped in the store submission process. App submissions can either be done...