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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the Microsoft Azure App services platform and how you can use this platform to create your cloud-based databases using RESTful web service APIs to handle all communication between the TrackMyWalks mobile application. You then set up and configured a Microsoft Azure App service to create a mobile app service, data connection, SQL Server database, and a WalkEntries table, and learned how to incorporate the Newtonsoft.Json NuGet package, as well as modify the WalkDataModel data model.

Next, you created a RestWebservice interface and class—which included a number of class instance methods that will be used to communicate with our database—so that you can perform CRUD operations to create, update, retrieve, and delete walk entries. You then made changes to the BaseViewModel class so that it included an AzureDatabase property...