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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 6: Customizing Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Forms allows developers to modify UI-rendering infrastructure in various ways. The customizations that are introduced by developers can target a certain platform feature on a certain control element or they can create a completely new view control. These customizations can be made on the Xamarin.Forms tier or on the target native platform.

In this chapter, we will go through the steps and procedures that are involved in customizing Xamarin.Forms without compromising on either performance or User Experience (UX). We will start our journey by defining the development domains for our customizations. Beginning with platform-agnostic customizations, such as behaviors, styles, and XAML extensions, we will make our way into native domains by implementing platform-specific functionality and customizations. Finally, we will take a look at custom renderers and custom controls.

The following sections will cover different development domains for...