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Mastering Xamarin UI Development - Second Edition

By : Steven F. Daniel
Book Image

Mastering Xamarin UI Development - Second Edition

By: Steven F. Daniel

Overview of this book

This book will provide you with the knowledge and practical skills that are required to develop real-world Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms applications. You’ll learn how to create native Android app that will interact with the device camera and photo gallery, and then create a native iOS sliding tiles game. You will learn how to implement complex UI layouts and create customizable control elements based on the platform, using XAML and C# 7 code to interact with control elements within your XAML ContentPages. You’ll learn how to add location-based features by to your apps by creating a LocationService class and using the Xam.Plugin.Geolocator cross-platform library, that will be used to obtain the current device location. Next, you’ll learn how to work with and implement animations and visual effects within your UI using the PlatformEffects API, using C# code. At the end of this book, you’ll learn how to integrate Microsoft Azure App Services and use the Twitter APIs within your app. You will work with the Razor Templating Engine to build a book library HTML5 solution that will use a SQLite.net library to store, update, retrieve, and delete information within a local SQLite database. Finally, you will learn how to write unit tests using the NUnit and UITest frameworks.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Adding the SQLite-net NuGet package to our solution

In this section, we will begin by adding the SQLite-net NuGet package to our BookLibrary project—which is essentially a cross-platform library that you can use to create, retrieve, update, or permanently delete (CRUD) information within the SQLite database—by writing a few lines of code to access the various properties and methods available within this class.

Let's start by adding the SQLite-net NuGet package to our BookLibrary project by going through the following steps:

  1. Right-click on the Packages folder and choose the Add Packages… menu option, as shown in the following screenshot:
Adding new NuGet Packages to the BookLibrary project
  1. Next, within the Search field located within the Add Packages dialog, enter SQLite-net and then select the sqlite-net option within the list, as shown in the following...