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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

Implementing the Android SoundHandler using the MediaPlayer framework


To implement the same functionality for the sound handler interface in Android, we will be using the the MediaPlayer framework.

Let's create a new folder in the Android project called Sound, and create a new file called SoundHandler.cs:

public class SoundHandler : ISoundHandler 
{ 
        private MediaPlayer _mediaPlayer; 
 
        public bool IsPlaying { get; set; } 
} 

The same as the iOS version, let's add the Load and PlayPause functions:

public void Load() 
        { 
            try 
            { 
                _mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(); 
                _mediaPlayer.SetAudioStreamType(Stream.Music); 
 
                AssetFileDescriptor descriptor = Android.App.Application.Context.Assets.OpenFd("Moby - The Only Thing.mp3"); 
                _mediaPlayer.SetDataSource(descriptor.FileDescriptor, descriptor.StartOffset, descriptor.Length); 
 
                _mediaPlayer.Prepare(); 
                _mediaPlayer...