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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

Customizing native domains

Native customizations of UI controls can vary from simple platform-specific adjustments to creating a completely custom native control to replace the existing platform renderer. In this section, we will implement customizations on quadrant III, departing from the platform-agnostic domain. We will take a closer look at platform specifics and Xamarin effects.

Platform specifics

While the UI controls offered by Xamarin.Forms are customizable enough for most UX requirements, additional native behaviors might be needed. For certain native control behaviors, a platform-specific configuration can be accessed using the IElementConfiguration interface implementation of the target control. For instance, in order to change the UpdateMode picker (that is, Immediately or WhenFinished), you can use the On<iOS> method to access the platform-specific behavior:

 var picker = new Xamarin.Forms.Picker();
 picker.On<iOS>().SetUpdateMode(UpdateMode.WhenFinished...