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Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By : Can Bilgin
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Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By: Can Bilgin

Overview of this book

Are you a .NET developer who wishes to develop mobile solutions without delving into the complexities of a mobile development platform? If so, this book is a perfect solution to help you build professional mobile apps without leaving the .NET ecosystem. Mobile Development with .NET will show you how to design, architect, and develop robust mobile applications for multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, and UWP using Xamarin, .NET Core, and Azure. With the help of real-world scenarios, you'll explore different phases of application development using Xamarin, from environment setup, design, and architecture to publishing. Throughout the book, you'll learn how to develop mobile apps using Xamarin and .NET Standard. You'll even be able to implement a web-based backend composed of microservices with .NET Core using various Azure services including, but not limited to, Azure Active Directory, Azure Functions. As you advance, you'll create data stores using popular database technologies such as Cosmos DB and data models such as the relational model and NoSQL. By the end of this mobile application development book, you'll be able to create cross-platform mobile applications that can be deployed as cloud-based PaaS and SaaS.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Understanding .NET
5
Section 2: Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
9
Section 3: Azure Cloud Services
14
Section 4: Advanced Mobile Development
18
Section 5: Application Life Cycle Management

Utilizing tasks and awaitables

In this section, we will be looking at the basics of tasks and asynchronous execution patterns, as well as identifying the main factors that make them a fundamental part of any modern application.

User experience (UX) is a term that is used to describe the composition of UI components and how the user interacts with them. In other words, UX is not only how the application is designed, but also the impression the user has about the application. In this context, the responsiveness of the application is one of the key factors that defines the quality of the application.

In general terms, a simple interaction use case starts with user interaction. This interaction can be a tap on a certain area of the screen, a certain gesture on a canvas, or an actual user input in an editable field on the screen. Once the user interaction triggers the execution flow, the application business logic is responsible for updating the UI to notify the user about the result...