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Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By : Can Bilgin
Book Image

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

Setting up Your Development Environment

As a developer planning to create native mobile applications using Xamarin, you have several options for setting up your development environment. In terms of development, both macOS and Windows can be utilized, using either Visual Studio or Rider IDEs.

As a .NET developer, if you are looking for a familiar environment and IDE, the best option would be to use Visual Studio on Windows.

In order to use the Xamarin-related templates and available SDKs, the first step would be to install the required components using the Visual Studio installer:

Figure 2.1 – Visual Studio installer

When you install the Mobile Development with .NET component, the required SDKs (for Android and iOS) are automatically installed, so you don't need to do any additional prerequisite installation.

Once the setup is complete, various project templates become available under the Cross...