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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

Application layout

In this section, we will take a look at certain UI patterns that allow developers and UX designers to create a compromise between user expectations and product demands. By doing so, a consistent UX across all platforms can be achieved.

For designers, as well as developers, probably one of the most exciting phases of the application life cycle is the design phase. In this phase, there are multiple factors that need to be carefully considered, thus avoiding any rash decisions. An application's design, in simple terms, should satisfy the following:

  • The consumers' expectations
  • The platform imperatives
  • Development costs

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Consumer expectations

The feature set of an application should really correlate with customers' expectations. Layout options and a navigation hierarchy should serve the purpose of the application while keeping the user interaction demands in mind. According to the requirements, an application...