Overview
- Provides the bare essentials needed to begin developing with Xamarin.Forms
- Follows the building of a commercial app with over 15,000 downloads
- Helps in confronting the challenges of working with third-party, RESTful APIs
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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What Is Xamarin.Forms?
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Building an App
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Future of Xamarin.Forms
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About this book
Xamarin.Forms Essentials provides a brief history of Xamarin as a company, including how their product has become one of the most-used, cross-platform technologies for enterprise applications and app development across the world. Examples in the book are built around a real-life example that is an actual app in Google Play and in the Apple App Store, and has thousands of downloads between iOS and Android. You will learn how an application is set up from scratch, and you will benefit from the author's hard-won experience and tips in addressing various development challenges.Â
What You'll Learn
- Create cross-platform user interfaces from one code base for both iOS and Android
- See how a commercial application is built and then deployed for sale in the app stores
- Integrate your Xamarin.Forms applications with third-party, RESTful APIs
- Arrange application architecture to avoid pitfalls and optimize your design
- Get a heads-up on new features released as part of Xamarin.Forms 3.0
- Choose appropriately between Xamarin.Forms and traditional Xamarin, depending upon your application needs and its goals
Who This Book Is For
Mobile app developers who are producing software for multiple platforms, including Google Android and Apple iOS. Readers should be familiar with Visual Studio either on Mac OS X or Windows, and have a working knowledge of C#.Â
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Xamarin.Forms Essentials
Book Subtitle: First Steps Toward Cross-Platform Mobile Apps
Authors: Gerald Versluis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3240-8
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Gerald Versluis 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3239-2Published: 03 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3240-8Published: 01 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 161
Number of Illustrations: 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mobile Computing, Microsoft and .NET, Apple and iOS