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Xamarin Blueprints

By : Michael Williams
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Xamarin Blueprints

By: Michael Williams

Overview of this book

Do you want to create powerful, efficient, and independent apps from scratch that will leverage the Xamarin framework and code with C#? Well, look no further; you’ve come to the right place! This is a learn-as-you-build practical guide to building eight full-fledged applications using Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin Android, and Xamarin iOS. Each chapter includes a project, takes you through the process of building applications (such as a gallery Application, a text-to-speech service app, a GPS locator app, and a stock market app), and will show you how to deploy the application’s source code to a Google Cloud Source Repository. Other practical projects include a chat and a media-editing app, as well as other examples fit to adorn any developer’s utility belt. In the course of building applications, this book will teach you how to design and prototype professional-grade applications implementing performance and security considerations.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Xamarin Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 2. Building a SpeechTalk Application

In this chapter, we introduce development with Xamarin.Forms. We will build a cross-platform application for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone that integrates native platform speech services to speak text typed from a text field.

Expected knowledge:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio.

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

  • Cross-platform development with Xamarin.Forms

  • Setting up platform projects

  • Setting up a SpeechTalk.iOS project

  • Setting up a SpeechTalk.Droid project

  • Xamarin.Forms, Windows Phone, and Visual Studio

  • Inversion of Control (IoC) with Xamarin.Forms

  • AutoFac

  • iOS text-to-speech implementation

  • Bindings

  • Android text-to-speech implementation

  • Setting up IoC with Android

  • WinPhone text-to-speech implementation

  • IoC with Windows Phone

  • Platform-independent styling