Overview
- Teaches you to create apps for Apple platforms and improve your coding efficiency with Xamarin
- Presents new programming technologies and tools from Microsoft to build great native apps for Apple platforms
- Provides expert content from a leading programmer, author, and conference speaker
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Visual Studio for Mac
- Xamarin
- application development
- Mac development
- Mobile programming
- Native mobile apps
- Programming for wearables
- Apps for smart TVs
- C# and iOS, watchOS and tvOS
- adaptive user interface for iOS
- Navigation and gestures in iOS
- Creating Apple watch apps
- Programming in iOS
- Web Services for iOS
- Dawid Borycki
- iOS
- TVos
About this book
Develop apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple wearables using Visual Studio for the Mac.
Learn how to set up your development environment and emulators, and how to create adaptive user interfaces for various platforms. Expert Dawid Borycki guides you through the fundamentals of programming for Apple platforms (Model View Controller, Test Driven Development), navigation patterns, gesture handling, accessing user's location, and reading and consuming data from web services.
After reading this book, you will be able to build native apps that look and feel like other apps built into iOS, watchOS, and tvOS, and have the skills that are in high demand in today’s market. If you are already programming C# apps for web or desktop, you will learn how to extend your skill set to Apple mobile, wearable, and smart TV platforms.
What You'll Learn
- Build and implement native apps for Apple platforms
- Create adaptive, universal views and handle navigation between them
- Access user's location and handle touch input
- Consume data from web services
- Minimize app development time with C#
Who This Book Is For
Developers who are interested in mobile and device development, as well as experienced non-Apple developers who want to switch or extend their skill set to programming for Apple platforms
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dawid Borycki is a software engineer, biomedical researcher, and an expert in several Microsoft developer technologies. He has resolved a broad range of software development challenges for device prototypes (mainly medical equipment), embedded device interfacing, and desktop and mobile programming. Dawid regularly speaks at international developers conferences and has published, cited, and presented on numerous developer topics, including web technologies, mobile/cross-platform development, wearables, embedded, and more.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning Xamarin Development for the Mac
Book Subtitle: Create iOS, watchOS, and Apple tvOS apps with Xamarin.iOS and Visual Studio for Mac
Authors: Dawid Borycki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3132-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Dawid Borycki 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3131-9Published: 20 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3132-6Published: 19 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 215
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Apple and iOS, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters