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Mobile Development with .NET - Second Edition

By : Can Bilgin
Book Image

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

Xamarin.Forms shared domains

In Chapter 5, UI Development with Xamarin, we used intrinsic Xamarin.Forms controls and their styling attributes to create our UI. By using data binding and data triggers, we created data-driven views. The extensibility options are, of course, not limited to the control attributes that are available on this layer. Both the behavior and the look and feel of rendered controls can be modified using standard customization and extensibility options. Let's take a look at the different customization options in the shared Xamarin.Forms domain.

Using styles

In the previous chapter, in our ShopAcross application, when working on the product details view, we created a simple chips container to display the various features of an item that was currently being offered through the application.

In the previous setup, we were only utilizing the Margin property and VerticalTextAlignment for the labels:

<FlexLayout Direction="Row" Wrap=&quot...