Overview
- Provides ready-to-run solutions that any Xamarin.Forms programmer can adopt and adapt
- Presents examples of best practices in developing Xamarin.Forms applications
- Organized by problem domain area for ease of reference
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Solutions in the book are organized broadly into problem domains such as user interface for applications, data and security, connectivity and external services, and more. Within each domain the book presents specific solutions addressing challenges that are commonly faced. Under data and security, for example, you’ll find specific solutions around storing login credentials, local data caching, and sending authorization tokens in HTTP requests.
Not only do the solutions in the book solve specific problems, they also present best practices that can inform and improve the quality of the code that you write. Xamarin.Forms Solutions is chock full of practical advice and code examples that no Xamarin.Forms programmer will want to be without. The basics of Xamarin.Forms are provided for beginning developers.
What You'll Learn
- Know the in-depth basics of Xamarin.Forms and the inner workings
- Create custom renderers and dependency services
- Manage the appearance of user interfaces through styling and theming, layout options, rotation, and animation
- Build sophisticated user interfaces using a variety of controls that allow for PDF viewing, barcode interpretation, searching and finding, and other controls
- Secure your applications, and communicate securely with services via HTTP requests
- Sign and deploy your apps and optimize the binary file size
Who This Book Is For
Those building mobile applications on the Xamarin platform for iOS and Android. By mixing together the solutions and a thorough explanation of the basics of Xamarin.Forms, the book spans the needs of beginning through intermediate Xamarin.Forms developers. Even experts will find a few gems to improve the quality and speed of their application development work.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Steven Thewissen is a software developer from the Netherlands focusing on Xamarin and backend development. He started working with Xamarin in 2014, and has been in love with it ever since. Steven shares his knowledge by regularly writing blogs about topics that interest him. He also has a lot of interest in UI design and loves to create kick-ass user interfaces for his mobile apps.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Xamarin.Forms Solutions
Authors: Gerald Versluis, Steven Thewissen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4134-9
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Gerald Versluis and Steven Thewissen 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-4133-2Published: 07 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4134-9Published: 06 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 281
Number of Illustrations: 80 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Mobile Computing