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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 IoC with Android


Now for the IoC implementation. It works exactly the same as iOS; let's add the Android module:

    public class DroidModule : IModule 
    { 
        public void Register(ContainerBuilder builer) 
        { 
            builer.RegisterType<TextToSpeechDroid> ().As<ITextToSpeech> ().SingleInstance (); 
        } 
    } 

Easy, right?

Now we have to set up the IoC container in our MainActivity.cs class; simply copy the iOS function in the AppDelegate file called initIoC and paste this into the MainActivity class, replace the instantiation of the iOSModule with your DroidModule, then simply add the function call after the initialization of Xamarin.Forms:

protected override void OnCreate (Bundle bundle) 
        { 
            base.OnCreate (bundle); 
 
            global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init (this, bundle); 
 
            InitIoC (); 
 
            LoadApplication (new App (...