Xamarin in Action: Creating Native Cross-Platform Mobile Apps
- 10h 39m
- Jim Bennett
- Manning Publications
- 2018
Summary
Xamarin in Action teaches you to build cross-platform mobile apps using Xamarin and C#. You'll explore all the layers of a Xamarin app, from design to deployment. By the end, you'll be able to build a quality, production-ready Xamarin app on iOS and Android from scratch with a high level of code reuse.
About the Technology
Rewriting the same app for iOS and Android is tedious, error-prone, and expensive. Microsoft's Xamarin drastically reduces dev time by reusing most application code--typically 70% or more. The core of your iOS and Android app is shared; you write platform-specific code only for the UI layer. And because Xamarin uses C#, your apps benefit from everything this modern language and the .NET ecosystem have to offer.
About the Book
Xamarin in Action teaches you to build cross-platform mobile apps using Xamarin and C#. You'll explore all the layers of a Xamarin app, from design to deployment. Xamarin expert Jim Bennett teaches you design practices that maximize code reuse and isolate device-specific code, making it a snap to incorporate the unique features of each OS.
What's Inside
- Understanding MVVM to maximize code reuse and testability
- Creating cross-platform model and UI logic layers
- Building device-specific UIs
- Unit and automated UI testing
- Preparing apps for publication with user tracking and crash analytics
About the Reader
Readers should have some experience with C#. Mobile development experience is helpful, but not assumed.
About the Author
Jim Bennett is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, specializing in Xamarin mobile apps. He's a frequent speaker at events all around the world, including Xamarin user groups and Xamarin and Microsoft conferences. He regularly blogs about Xamarin development at jimbobbennett.io.
In this Book
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Foreword
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About This Book
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About the Cover Illustration
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Introducing Native Cross-Platform Applications with Xamarin
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Hello MVVM—Creating a Simple Cross-Platform App Using MVVM
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MVVM—The Model-View–View Model Design Pattern
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Hello Again, MVVM—Understanding and Enhancing Our Simple MVVM App
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What are We (A)Waiting for? An Introduction to Multithreading for Xamarin Apps
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Designing MVVM Cross-Platform Apps
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Building Cross-Platform Models
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Building Cross-Platform View Models
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Building Simple Android Views
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Building More Advanced Android Views
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Building simple iOS Views
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Building More Advanced iOS Views
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Running Mobile Apps on Physical Devices
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Testing Mobile Apps Using Xamarin UITest
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Using App Center to Build, Test, and Monitor Apps
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Deploying apps to Beta Testers and the Stores
