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Xamarin.Forms Projects

By : Karlsson, Hindrikes

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Overview of this book

Xamarin.Forms is a lightweight cross-platform development toolkit for building applications with a rich user interface. In this book you'll start by building projects that explain the Xamarin.Forms ecosystem to get up and running with building cross-platform applications. We'll increase in difficulty throughout the projects, making you learn the nitty-gritty of Xamarin.Forms offerings. You'll gain insights into the architecture, how to arrange your app's design, where to begin developing, what pitfalls exist, and how to avoid them. The book contains seven real-world projects, to get you hands-on with building rich UIs and providing a truly cross-platform experience. It will also guide you on how to set up a machine for Xamarin app development. You'll build a simple to-do application that gets you going, then dive deep into building advanced apps such as messaging platform, games, and machine learning, to build a UI for an augmented reality project. By the end of the book, you'll be confident in building cross-platforms and fitting Xamarin.Forms toolkits in your app development. You'll be able to take the practice you get from this book to build applications that comply with your requirements.

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Introduction to Xamarin

Native applications

Xamarin and Mono

Xamarin.iOS

Xamarin.Android

Xamarin.Mac

Xamarin.Forms

Setting up a development machine

Summary

Building Our First Xamarin.Forms App

Technical requirements

An overview of the project

Beginning the project

Summary

A Matchmaking App with a Rich UX Using Animations

Technical requirements

Project overview

Creating the matchmaking app

Summary

Building a Location Tracking App Using GPS and Maps

Technical requirements

Project overview

Getting started

Building the MeTracker app

Summary

Building a Weather App for Multiple Form Factors

Technical requirements

Project overview

Getting started

Building the weather app

Summary

Setting up a Backend for a Chat App Using Azure Services

Technical requirements

Azure serverless services

Project overview

Building the serverless backend

Summary

Building a Real-Time Chat Application

Technical requirements

Project overview

Getting started

Building the chat app

Summary

Creating an Augmented-Reality Game

Technical requirements

Essential theory

An overview of the project

Beginning the project

Summary

Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog Using Machine Learning

Technical requirements

Machine learning

Project overview

Getting started

Building the Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog application using machine learning

Summary

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Xamarin.iOS

Xamarin.iOS is used for building applications for iOS with .NET, and contains the bindings to the iOS APIs mentioned previously. Xamarin.iOS uses ahead of time (AOT) compiling to compile the C# code to Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) assembly language. The Mono runtime runs along with the Objective-C runtime. Code that uses .NET namespaces, such as System.Linq or System.Net, will be executed by the Mono runtime, while code that uses iOS-specific namespaces will be executed by the Objective-C runtime. Both the Mono runtime and the Objective-C runtime will run on top of the Unix-like kernel, X is Not Unix (XNU) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU), which is developed by Apple. The following diagram shows an overview of the iOS architecture: