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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
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Preface

Setting up MVVMCross with iOS


Now we move over to the iOS project. For each platform, we must implement a Setup class that will be used to instantiate the MvxApplication class. Add a new class called IosSetup and implement the following:

public class IosSetup : MvxIosSetup 
    { 
        public IosSetup(MvxApplicationDelegate applicationDelegate, UIWindow window) : base(applicationDelegate, window) 
        { 
        } 
 
        protected override IMvxApplication CreateApp() 
        { 
            return new App(); 
        } 
 
        protected override IMvxTrace CreateDebugTrace() 
        { 
            return new DebugTrace(); 
        } 
    } 

Firstly, we must include a constructor that takes in an MvxApplicationDelegate and UIWindow; these will be passed into the base on instantiation. We also have two functions that are overriden as part of the MvxIosSetup object.

Start with the CreateApp function. All we are doing here is instantiating the MvxApplication class that we implemented...