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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

Solution setup


Let's begin by creating a new Xamarin.Forms project and calling it Camera. We also want to create the Camera.Portable project. Now that we have built up several Xamarin.Forms applications, we have a lot of reusable parts that will be brought across to this application.

Starting with the Camera.Portable project, we want to copy in the IoC, Extras, and Logging folders used in Chapter 7, Building a File Storage Application. Make sure all the files contained in these folders are copied in accordingly.

Tip

Don't forget to update namespaces in each code sheet.

Then we want to add the following NuGet packages for every project:

  • Autofac

  • Reactive extensions

Next, we want to create a folder called Enums. Add in a new folder called PageNames.cs and implement the following:

public enum PageNames 
    { 
        #region Properties 
 
        MainPage, 
 
        CameraPage, 
 
        #endregion 
    } 

Like our other projects, this will be used...