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Mobile Development with .NET

Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By : Can Bilgin
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Mobile Development with .NET

Mobile Development with .NET

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By: Can Bilgin
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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)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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Download the example code files
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Conventions used
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Section 1: Understanding .NET
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Section 1: Understanding .NET
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with .NET 5.0
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with .NET 5.0
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Technical Requirements
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Exploring cross-platform development
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Understanding .NET Core
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Developing with .NET 5.0
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Summary
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Chapter 2: Defining Xamarin, Mono, and .NET Standard
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Chapter 2: Defining Xamarin, Mono, and .NET Standard
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Understanding Xamarin
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Setting up Your Development Environment
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Creating your First Xamarin Application
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Using .NET with Xamarin
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Xamarin.Forms
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Extending the reach
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Summary
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Chapter 3: Developing with Universal Windows Platform
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Chapter 3: Developing with Universal Windows Platform
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Introducing Universal Windows Platform
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Creating UWP applications
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Understanding XAML Differences
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Using .NET Standard and .NET Native with UWP
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Working with Platform extensions
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Summary
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Section 2: Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
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Section 2: Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
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Chapter 4: Developing Mobile Applications with Xamarin
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Chapter 4: Developing Mobile Applications with Xamarin
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Technical Requirements
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Choosing between Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
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Organizing Xamarin.Forms application projects
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Selecting the presentation architecture
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Useful architectural patterns
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Chapter 5: UI Development with Xamarin
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Chapter 5: UI Development with Xamarin
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Technical Requirements
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Application layout
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Implementing navigation structure
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Implementing Shell Navigation
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Using Xamarin.Forms and native controls
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Creating data-driven views
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Collection Views
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Chapter 6: Customizing Xamarin.Forms
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Chapter 6: Customizing Xamarin.Forms
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Technical Requirements
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Xamarin.Forms development domains
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Xamarin.Forms shared domains
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Customizing native domains
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Creating Custom Controls
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Summary
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Section 3: Azure Cloud Services
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Section 3: Azure Cloud Services
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Chapter 7: Azure Services for Mobile Applications
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Chapter 7: Azure Services for Mobile Applications
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An overview of Azure services
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Data stores
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Azure Serverless
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Development services
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Chapter 8: Creating a Datastore with Cosmos DB
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Chapter 8: Creating a Datastore with Cosmos DB
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Technical Requirements
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The basics of Cosmos DB
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Data access models
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Modeling data
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Cosmos DB in depth
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Chapter 9: Creating Microservices Azure App Services
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Chapter 9: Creating Microservices Azure App Services
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Technical requirements
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Choosing the right app model
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Creating our first microservice
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Integrating with Redis cache
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Hosting the services
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Securing the application
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Chapter 10: Using .NET Core for Azure Serverless
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Chapter 10: Using .NET Core for Azure Serverless
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Understanding Azure Serverless
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Developing Azure Functions
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Developing a Logic App
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Integration with Azure services
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Section 4: Advanced Mobile Development
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Section 4: Advanced Mobile Development
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Chapter 11: Fluid Applications with Asynchronous Patterns
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Chapter 11: Fluid Applications with Asynchronous Patterns
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Utilizing tasks and awaitables
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Asynchronous execution patterns
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Native asynchronous execution
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Summary
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Chapter 12: Managing Application Data
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Chapter 12: Managing Application Data
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Improving HTTP performance with transient caching
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Persistent relational data cache
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Data access patterns
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Summary
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Chapter 13: Engaging Users with Notifications and the Graph API
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Chapter 13: Engaging Users with Notifications and the Graph API
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Understanding Native Notification Services
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Azure Notification Hubs
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Creating a notification service
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The Graph API and Project Rome
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Section 5: Application Life Cycle Management
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Section 5: Application Life Cycle Management
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Chapter 14: Azure DevOps and Visual Studio App Center
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Chapter 14: Azure DevOps and Visual Studio App Center
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Using Azure DevOps and Git
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Creating Xamarin application packages
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App Center for Xamarin
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Distributing with App Center
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App Center telemetry and diagnostics
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Chapter 15: Application Telemetry with Application Insights
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Chapter 15: Application Telemetry with Application Insights
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Collecting insights for Xamarin applications
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Collecting telemetry data for Azure Service
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Analyzing data
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Summary
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Chapter 16: Automated Testing
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Chapter 16: Automated Testing
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Maintaining application integrity with tests
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Maintaining cross-module integrity with integration tests
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Automated UI tests
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Chapter 17: Deploying Azure Modules
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Chapter 17: Deploying Azure Modules
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Creating an ARM template
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ARM template concepts
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Using Azure DevOps for ARM templates
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Deploying .NET Core applications
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Chapter 18: CI/CD with Azure DevOps
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Chapter 18: CI/CD with Azure DevOps
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Introducing CI/CD
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CI/CD with GitFlow
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The QA process
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Creating and using release templates
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with .NET 5.0

.NET Core (previously known as .NET vNext) is the general umbrella term used for Microsoft's cross-platform toolset that aims to solve the shortcomings of centralized/machine-wide frameworks (classic .NET Framework) by creating a portable, platform-agnostic, modular runtime and framework. This decentralized development platform, which is replacing the classic .NET Framework starting with v5.0, allows developers to create applications for multiple platforms using the common .NET base class libraries (implementation of the .NET standard), as well as various runtimes and application models, depending on the target platforms.

This chapter will give you a brief introduction to the new .NET Framework while explaining different tiers of the .NET Core infrastructure. The combination of .NET Core, .NET Standard, and Xamarin is the key to cross-platform projects and opens many doors that were previously only available to Windows developers. The ability to create web applications that can run on Linux machines and containers, and the implementation of mobile applications that target iOS, Android, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), and Tizen, are just a couple of examples designed to emphasize the capabilities of this cross-platform approach.

In this chapter, we will analyze cross-platform development tools and frameworks for mobile applications and take an initial look at .NET Core development.

The following sections will guide you through getting started with .NET 5.0:

  • Exploring cross-platform development
  • Understanding .NET Core
  • Developing with .NET 5.0
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