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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

Design elements


In order to create a consistent layout across platforms, while conforming to the platform requirements, developers and designers need to familiarize themselves with each platform and draw parallels between the layouts and UI controls on these platforms. We will discuss this in the next chapter within the scope of Xamarin.Forms. The existence of parallels between these platforms makes the foundation of the Xamarin.Forms framework.

The basic layout

The main layout elements in all three platforms are very similar to each other. However, the placement of these elements differs greatly according to the platform.

The User Interface Layout

On each platform, the status bar displaying the system information is located at the top of the screen (marked as "1" in the preceding screenshot). This section is one of the constant elements that should be kept in mind when designing applications for Xamarin target platforms.

Note

On Windows 10 operating system, the system bar can be expanded on user...