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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

Core location and GPS


All mobile phone platforms have access to core location services. These services are background tasks that run in the background and update the latitude and longitude values at certain intervals indefinitely until the service is stopped. 99% of smart phones come with a built-in GPS tracker, allowing you to integrate these latitude and longitude values with your application.

Project setup

Let's jump straight into project setup and create a new Xamarin.Forms application. We are going to start by setting up an IoC container with Autofac, exactly the same as the previous project, import Autofac into all three projects (PCL, Android, and iOS). We can reuse a lot of the PCL code from the IoC container implementation in the previous project.

Note

The more apps you build, the more problems you solve; why reinvent the wheel over and over? Eventually, when you have built multiple applications, future apps will be built mostly from piecing parts of different projects together.

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