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iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook

By : Dimitrios Tavlikos (USD)
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iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook

By: Dimitrios Tavlikos (USD)

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iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook
Dimitrios Tavlikos (USD)
May, 2014 | 386 pages
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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook
iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Development Tools
Development Tools
Introduction
Installing prerequisites
Creating an iOS project with Xamarin Studio
Interface Builder
Creating the UI
Accessing the UI with Outlets
Adding Actions to controls
Compiling an iOS project
Debugging our application
2
User Interface – Views
User Interface – Views
Introduction
Adding and customizing views
Receiving user input with buttons
Displaying images
Displaying and editing text
Using the keyboard
Displaying progress
Displaying content larger than the screen
Navigating through the content divided into pages
Displaying alerts
Creating a custom view
Styling views
3
User Interface – View Controllers
User Interface – View Controllers
Introduction
Loading a view with a view controller
Navigating through different view controllers
Providing controllers in tabs
Modal view controllers
Creating a custom view controller
Using view controllers efficiently
iPad view controllers
UI flow design with storyboards
Unwinding in storyboards
4
Data Management
Data Management
Introduction
Creating files
Using a SQLite database
Preparing for iCloud support
iCloud key/value storage
5
Displaying Data
Displaying Data
Introduction
Providing lists
Displaying data in a table
Customizing rows
Editing a table
Table indexing
Searching through the data
Creating a simple web browser
Displaying data in a grid
Customizing the grid
6
Web Services
Web Services
Introduction
Consuming web services
Consuming REST services
Communicating with native APIs
Using WCF services
7
Multimedia Resources
Multimedia Resources
Introduction
Selecting images and videos
Capturing media with the camera
Playing videos
Playing music and sounds
Recording with the microphone
Managing album items directly
8
Integrating iOS Features
Integrating iOS Features
Introduction
Starting phone calls
Sending text messages and e-mails
Using text messaging in our application
Using e-mail messaging in our application
Managing the address book
Displaying contacts
Managing the calendar
9
Interacting with Device Hardware
Interacting with Device Hardware
Introduction
Detecting the device orientation
Adjusting the UI orientation
Proximity sensor
Retrieving the battery information
Handling motion events
Handling touch events
Recognizing gestures
Custom gestures
Using the accelerometer
Using the gyroscope
10
Location Services and Maps
Location Services and Maps
Introduction
Determining location
Determining heading
Using region monitoring
Using a significant-change location service
Location services in the background
Displaying maps
Geocoding
Adding map annotations
Adding map overlays
11
Graphics and Animation
Graphics and Animation
Introduction
Animating views
Transforming views
Animating images
Animating layers
Drawing lines and curves
Drawing shapes
Drawing text
A simple drawing app
Creating an image context
12
Multitasking
Multitasking
Introduction
Detecting application states
Receiving notifications for app states
Running code in the background
Playing audio in the background
Updating data in the background
13
Localization
Localization
Introduction
Creating an app for different languages
Localizable resources
Regional formatting
14
Deploying
Deploying
Introduction
Creating profiles
Creating an ad hoc distribution bundle
Preparing an app for the App Store
Submitting an app to the App Store
15
Advanced Features
Advanced Features
Introduction
Reproducing the page curl effect
Integrating content sharing
Implementing custom transitions
Using physics in UI elements
Implementing the text-to-speech feature
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Ryan Alford is a .NET software engineer who works from home. Ryan has been a .NET developer for over 7 years, with the majority of his focus being on C#. In his early years, he worked almost exclusively on WinForms and Windows Mobile. He then started working with ASP.Net, AJAX, and Silverlight. In the past few years, as mobile development really started to take off, he took an interest in Xamarin and MonoTouch.

Ryan was able to help convince the management at his employer to use Xamarin for their upcoming enterprise application on iOS, as the company was using .Net and C# in other projects. It was at this point that Ryan was added to the three-person development team to write the new iOS enterprise application.

Ryan has written and released two Android applications: MotoTorch LED and Phase 10 Score Center. MotoTorch LED has more than 500,000 downloads and was one of the first applications on Android that used the camera LEDs as a flashlight.

Today, Ryan is currently rewriting Phase 10 Score Center in Xamarin.Android to ease the development of new features. He is still on his iOS team and continues to add new features to his company's enterprise application.

Yaroslav Bigus is an expert in building cross-platform web and mobile applications. He has over 4 years experience in development and has worked for companies in Leeds and New York. He has been using the .NET Framework stack for developing backend systems, JavaScript for the frontend side, and Xamarin for mobile devices.

He is now working for an Israeli startup called yRuler. Previously, Yaroslav reviewed Xamarin Mobile Application Development for iOS, Paul F. Johnson, Packt Publishing.

I am thankful to my family and friends.

William Smith has been developing with Xamarin Studio for over 3 years and has been developing software since 2001. He currently works as a Geospatial Developer at Geographic Information Services, Inc., specializing in mobile-platform development. He is also the founder of Websmiths, LLC (www.websmithsllc.com), a consulting firm that offers services in cross-platform mobile application development and web development. William holds two BSc degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Maryland.

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