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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

Peripherals


In this section, we will discuss several communication protocols that enable applications to communicate with other platforms and other devices.

Bluetooth

The Bluetooth communication protocol has become an invaluable feature on mobile devices. Especially with the emerging technologies related to IoT (Internet of Things), and various accessories we use in daily life, our dependency on the Bluetooth stack on mobile platforms has increased.

While Xamarin.Android applications and Windows Runtime applications can make use of both GATT (Bluetooth Low Energy) and RFCOMM (Bluetooth Serial), iOS applications can only communicate through the Bluetooth LE protocol. The main reason for this discrepancy is the fact that Android and Windows Runtime implement the serial communication port according to shared specifications. However, Apple implements a propriety communication stack using an encryption system. This, unfortunately, limits the serial communication to between only Apple produced/compliant...