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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 the Windows Phone version


If you are looking for an even bigger challenge, then try adding on the Windows Phone version. Don't be intimidated by this exercise, most of the code is shared for you. On the Windows Phone version, you will have to implement the following:

  • WinPhoneMethods

  • GestureViewRenderer

  • SQLiteSetup

  • LoggerWinPhone

You will also need to download a Visual Studio extension for SQLite from the following link http://sqlite.org/download.html.

Download the sqlite-wp81-winrt-3130000.vsix file:

Install the extensions and then reopen Visual Studio. Then, in your Windows Phone project, right-click on References and select Add Reference.... Then select Windows Phone 8.1 | Extensions from the left-hand side and select SQLite for Windows Phone 8.1, as shown in the following screenshot:

When you run this project, you must make sure that the x86 configuration is set:

To help you get started, the implementation for the SQLiteSetup class is as follows:

public class SQLiteSetup : ISQLiteSetup...