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Xamarin.Forms Projects

By : Johan Karlsson, Daniel Hindrikes
Book Image

Xamarin.Forms Projects

By: Johan Karlsson, Daniel 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)

Azure serverless services

Before we start to build a backend with a serverless architecture, we need to define what serverless actually means. In a serverless architecture, of course the code will run on a server, but we don't need to worry about that; the only thing we need to focus on is building our software. We let someone else handle everything to do with servers. We don't need to think about how much memory or CPU the server needs, or even how many servers we need. When we use services in Azure, Microsoft takes care of this for us.

Azure SignalR Service

The Azure SignalR Service is a service in Microsoft Azure for real-time communication between a server and clients. The service will push content to the clients...