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Xamarin.Forms Projects - Second Edition

By : Hindrikes, Karlsson
Book Image

Xamarin.Forms Projects - Second Edition

By: Hindrikes, Karlsson

Overview of this book

Xamarin.Forms is a lightweight cross-platform development toolkit for building apps with a rich user interface. Improved and updated to cover the latest features of Xamarin.Forms, this second edition covers CollectionView and Shell, along with interesting concepts such as augmented reality (AR) and machine learning. Starting with an introduction to Xamarin and how it works, this book shares tips for choosing the type of development environment you should strive for when planning cross-platform mobile apps. You’ll build your first Xamarin.Forms app and learn how to use Shell to implement the app architecture. The book gradually increases the level of complexity of the projects, guiding you through creating apps ranging from a location tracker and weather map to an AR game and face recognition. As you advance, the book will take you through modern mobile development frameworks such as SQLite, .NET Core Mono, ARKit, and ARCore. You’ll be able to customize your apps for both Android and iOS platforms to achieve native-like performance and speed. The book is filled with engaging examples, so you can grasp essential concepts by writing code instead of reading through endless theory. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to develop your own native apps with Xamarin.Forms and its associated technologies, such as .NET Core, Visual Studio 2019, and C#.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Technical requirements

To be able to complete this project, you need to have Visual Studio for Mac or PC installed, as well as the Xamarin components. See Chapter 1, Introduction to Xamarin, for more details on how to set up your environment. You also need an Azure account. If you have a Visual Studio subscription, there are a specific amount of Azure credits included each month. To activate your Azure benefits, go to https://my.visualstudio.com.

You can also create a free account, where you can use selected services for free over 12 months. You will get $200 worth of credit to explore any Azure service for 30 days, and you can also use the free services at any time. Read more at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.

The source code for this chapter is available at the GitHub repository for the book at, https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Xamarin.Forms-4-Projects/tree/master/Chapter11.