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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

Chapter 5: UI Development with Xamarin

Material Design, which is the most prominent UI pattern for Android applications, Apple's human interface guidelines, and UWP's Fluid UI language, can make it overwhelming for UX designers and developers to decide on a unified application design. Factors to consider include, but are not limited to, user expectations of the target platform and branding-related product owners' requirements, regardless of the platform.

In this chapter, we will demonstrate how to set up the application layout while utilizing some of the important decision factors for a consistent UX design. We will then create simple application pages and connect them to create a navigational hierarchy using the standard navigation services. We will also take a step back and have a look at the Xamarin Shell implementation for creating the application page hierarchy. We will also browse through Xamarin.Forms view elements and see how they can be connected to the application...