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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

Building the FocusView


The FocusView is going to be used as an overlay view with a target image for touching focus points. This will be a CustomRenderer as we have to use native libraries for retrieving specific (x, y) coordinates on touch points.

Start with adding a new file into the Controls folder called FocusView.cs and implement the following:

public sealed class FocusView : RelativeLayout 
    { 
        #region Constant Properties 
 
        const int IMG_TARGET_BOUND = 100; 
 
        #endregion 
 
        #region Private Properties 
 
        private bool _isAnimating; 
 
        private bool _startingPointsAssigned; 
 
        private readonly CustomImage _focalTarget; 
 
        private Point _pStartingOrientation; 
 
        private Point _pFlippedOrientation; 
 
        #endregion 
 
        #region Public Events 
 
        public event EventHandler<Point...