Chapter 1. Building a Gallery Application
This chapter will walkthrough native development with Xamarin by building an iOS and Android application that will read from your local gallery files, and display them in a UITableView and ListView. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
Expected knowledge:
- Creating iOS provision certificates
- iOS development
- Objective-C
- Creating keystores
- Android development
- Java
In this chapter you will learn the following:
- Creating an iOS project
- Creating a UIViewController and UITableView
- Customizing a cell's appearance
- Creating an Android project
- Creating an XML interface and ListView
- Shared projects
- Custom row appearance
- Bitmap functions
- The ALAssetLibrary
- Adding the iOS photo screen
- Adding the Android photo screen