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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

Implementing Shell Navigation

In this section, we are going to use Xamarin Shell to demonstrate how it can make a developer's life easier. We will be implementing a simple Master/Detail view using Xamarin Shell.

In applications where the navigation hierarchy is more complex than a three-tier vertical and peer navigation, extensively using the navigation service, as well as the recreated views and view models, can cause maintainability and performance issues. Navigational links between pages on different tiers and peers can cause serious headaches for the development team in particular.

Xamarin Shell can help ease this complexity by introducing a layer between the navigational infrastructure and the Xamarin.Forms pages. The premise of Shell is to provide almost a web application-like route handling and templating infrastructure so that complex navigational links and multi-page views can be created with ease.

The simplest way to illustrate how Xamarin Shell works would...