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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

Building core mobile projects


Let's add two new PCL projects, call them Stocklist.XamForms and Stocklist.Portable.

In the Stocklist.Portable project we want to add the following nuget packages:

  • Microsoft HTTP client libraries

  • Autofac

  • Newtonsoft.Json

  • Reactive extensions (main library)

In the Stocklist.XamForms project we want to add the following nuget packages:

  • Microsoft HTTP client libraries

  • Autofac

  • Xamarin.Forms

  • Reactive extensions (main library)

Tip

Just copy the exact names of the libraries to bring up the libraries you require via the Package Manager tool.

Now that we have our projects ready to go we can begin coding. From our previous solution in Chapter 3, Building a GPS Locator Application, we want to reuse some major parts, such as the IoC container, modules, and cross-platform navigation.

Tip

Keeping mobile solutions modular and decoupled makes it easier to share code between different solutions. Why do you think we have nuget packages?

Like our Locator application, we will reuse the MainPage...