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Xamarin.Forms Projects

By : Karlsson, Hindrikes
Book Image

Xamarin.Forms Projects

By: Karlsson, Hindrikes

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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Project overview

Many of us have been there, faced with the conundrum to swipe left or right. All of a sudden, you may find yourself wondering: how does this work? How does the swipe magic happen? Well, in this project, we're going to learn all about it. We will start by defining a MainPage file, in which the images of our application will reside. After that, we will create the image control and gradually add the GUI and functionality to it until we have nailed the perfect swiping experience.

The build time for this project is about 90 minutes.