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Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development

Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development - Third Edition

By : Peppers
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Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development

Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development

By: Peppers

Overview of this book

Xamarin is a leading cross-platform application development tool used by top companies such as Coca-Cola, Honeywell, and Alaska Airlines to build apps. Version 4 features significant updates to the platform including the release of Xamarin.Forms 2.0 and improvements have been made to the iOS and Android designers. Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft so it is now a part of the Visual Studio family. This book will show you how to build applications for iOS, Android, and Windows. You will be walked through the process of creating an application that comes complete with a back-end web service and native features such as GPS location, camera, push notifications, and other core features. Additionally, you’ll learn how to use external libraries with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms to create user interfaces. This book also provides instructions for Visual Studio and Windows. This edition has been updated with new screenshots and detailed steps to provide you with a holistic overview of the new features in Xamarin 4.
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Avoiding common memory pitfalls


Memory on mobile devices is certainly not an unlimited commodity. Because of this, memory usage in your application can be much more important than on desktop applications. At times, you might find the need to use a memory profiler or improve your code to use memory more efficiently.

The following are the most common memory pitfalls:

  • The garbage collector (GC) is unable to collect large objects fast enough to keep up with your application

  • Your code inadvertently causes a memory leak

  • A C# object is garbage collected, but is later attempted to be used by native code

Let's take a look at the first problem, where the GC cannot keep up. Let's say we have a Xamarin.iOS application with a button for sharing an image on Twitter, as follows:

twitterShare.TouchUpInside += (sender, e) => 
{ 
  var image = UImage.FromFile("YourLargeImage.png"); 
  //Share to Twitter 
}; 

Now let's assume the image is a 10 MB image from the user's camera roll. If...

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