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Xamarin Blueprints

By : Michael Williams
Book Image

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

Inversion of Control (IoC) with Xamarin.Forms


The Inversion of Control (IoC) principle is very a useful technique when writing cross-platform applications.

So why should we use it?

Sharing 100% of the code would be great, but it is not entirely possible; we still require some implementation from platform-specific features (for example different platform services, hardware, cameras). A way to tackle this problem is via an IoC container. Using the IoC principle, we use an abstraction for the functionality in our shared code and pass an implementation of the abstraction into our shared code. Our IoC containers handle the instantiation of an object's dependency tree. We can register objects to their inherited interfaces and allow containers to pass registered objects as their abstracted interfaces all the way down the dependency tree (all the way to PCL).

So how do we benefit from this?

What if I needed view models to call methods to a native Bluetooth service in a PCL project?

To put it simply,...