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Building a Basic App Using Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms [Video]

By : Steven F. Daniel
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Building a Basic App Using Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms [Video]

By: Steven F. Daniel

Overview of this book

Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms are the most powerful cross-platform mobile development frameworks for creating stunning cross-platform applications on the iOS and Android mobile platforms. This video course will begin by showing you how to successfully set up Visual Studio for Mac for both iOS and Android so that you can begin developing apps using the Xamarin.Forms platform. You will then learn how to debug your Xamarin applications right within the Visual Studio IDE, before moving on to learn how to build hybrid mobile applications using the Razor Templating Engine. Towards the end of the course, you will learn how to build a photo library application that interacts with the user's camera and photo album.

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Building a Basic App Using Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms [Video]
Steven F. Daniel
Oct, 2017 | 1 hours 22 minutes
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Table of Contents (3 chapters)
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1
Setting up Visual Studio for Mac
The Course Overview
Installing Visual Studio for Mac and Xamarin
Exploring the Visual Studio for Mac IDE
Creating a Cross-platform App for iOS and Android
Setting Breakpoints Within Your Code
Using the Visual Studio for Mac Built-in Debugger
2
Creating a Simple Application Using Razor Templates
Understanding the Razor Templating Engine
Building a Book Library App Using the Razor Templating Engine
Incorporating SQLite-Net and Creating a Database Wrapper
Creating the Book Library Database Model
Creating the Razor Template Pages for Our Book Library App
3
Building a Photo Library App Using Xamarin. Forms
Building a Photo Library App
Incorporating the Xamarin Media Plugin
Creating the Photo Library Interface Using XAML
Interacting with the Device Camera and Photo Album
Setting up the Camera and Photo Album Permissions
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Building a Photo Library App Using Xamarin. Forms
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Section 4
Interacting with the Device Camera and Photo Album
The aim of this video is to make you understand how to use the Xamarin Media Plugin to access the device camera and photo album. - Get to know how to handle taking picture’s using the device camera - Get to know how to choose a picture from the photo album, and store this within your Gallery Image model - Implement methods to convert an image into bytes
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