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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

Setting up the SpeechTalk.Droid project


Let's do the same for Android and set up Xamarin.Forms accordingly. Inside our Android project, open the MainActivity.cs class and look at the OnCreate function:

[Activity (Label = "SpeechTalk.Droid", Icon = "@drawable/icon", MainLauncher = true, ConfigurationChanges = ConfigChanges.ScreenSize | ConfigChanges.Orientation)] 
    public class MainActivity : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FormsApplicationActivity 
    { 
        protected override void OnCreate (Bundle bundle) 
        { 
            base.OnCreate (bundle); 
 
            global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init (this, bundle); 
 
            LoadApplication (new App ()); 
        } 
    } 

The MainActivity class must inherit Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FormsApplicationActivity; we must call the super class OnCreate method before we initialize Xamarin.Forms and load in our new instantiated app class. That's all, we can now...