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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

Using .NET with Xamarin

Even though the Xamarin and/or .NET Core target platforms (Platform APIs) are treated as if they have the same setup, capabilities, and functionalities as a platform-agnostic framework, each of these target platforms are different from each other. The adaption layer (implementation of .NET Standard) allows us, as developers, to treat these platforms in the same way.

Before the unification and standardization of .NET modules, together with shared projects, cross-platform compatibility was maintained by common denominators of implemented functionality on target platforms. In other words, the available APIs on each selected platform made up a profile that determined the subset of functionality that could be used for these platforms. These platform-agnostic projects that were used to implement the application logic were then packaged into so-called Portable Class Libraries (PCLs). PCLs were an essential part of cross-platform projects...