Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development - Third Edition电子书

Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development - Third Edition

Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development - Third Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Why subscribe?

Customer Feedback

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Xamarin Setup

Understanding Xamarin

Installing Xcode

Installing Xamarin on Mac OS X

Setting up the Android emulator

Installing Xamarin on Windows

Connecting Visual Studio to a Mac for iOS development

Enrolling in the iOS developer program

Registering as a Google Play developer

Summary

2. Hello, Platforms!

Building your first iOS application

Understanding Apple's MVC pattern

Using the iOS designer

Building your first Android application

Understanding Android activities

Xamarin's Android designer

Summary

3. Code Sharing Between iOS and Android

Learning the MVVM design pattern

Comparing project organization strategies

Setting up a shared project

Working with portable class libraries

Using preprocessor statements

Simplifying dependency injection

Implementing Inversion of Control

Summary

4. XamSnap - A Cross-Platform App

Starting our sample application concept

Developing our model layer

Writing a mock web service

Writing the ViewModel layer

Implementing our LoginViewModel class

Implementing our RegisterViewModel class

Implementing our FriendViewModel class

Implementing our MessageViewModel class

Writing unit tests

Setting up a new project for unit tests

Writing assertions

Summary

5. XamSnap for iOS

Understanding the basics of an iOS app

Xamarin.iOS Build Options

Using UINavigationController

Implementing the login screen

Using segues for navigation

Setting up UITableView

Adding a friends list screen

Adding a list of messages

Composing messages

Summary

6. XamSnap for Android

Introducing the Android Manifest

Setting up Material Design

Adding a login screen

Using ListView and BaseAdapter

Implementing the friends list

Composing messages

Summary

7. Deploying and Testing on Devices

iOS provisioning

Android device settings

Understanding the linker

Understanding AOT compilation

Avoiding common memory pitfalls

Summary

8. Contacts, Camera, and Location

Introducing Xamarin.Mobile

Accessing contacts

Retrieving contacts on Android

Looking up GPS location

Implementing GPS location on Android

Accessing the photo library and camera

Accessing photos on Android

Summary

9. Web Services with Push Notifications

Learning Windows Azure

Setting up your Azure account

Exploring Azure Functions

Creating and calling Azure Functions

Using HttpClient in C#

Adding more Azure Functions

Using the Apple Push Notification service

Setting up your provision profile

Setting up a certificate for push notifications

Making client-side changes for push notifications

Sending push notifications from the server-side

Implementing Google Cloud Messaging

Summary

10. Third-Party Libraries

The Xamarin Component Store

Porting existing C# libraries

Objective-C bindings

Java bindings

Using XPath in Java bindings

Summary

11. Xamarin.Forms

Creating Hello World in Xamarin.Forms

Understanding the architecture behind Xamarin.Forms

Using XAML in Xamarin.Forms

Using data-binding and MVVM

Summary

12. App Store Submission

Following the iOS App Store Review Guidelines

Submitting an app to the iOS App Store

Creating a distribution provisioning profile

Adding your app to iTunes Connect

Making an iOS binary for the App Store

Signing your Android applications

Submitting the app to Google Play

Google Play developer program policies

Tips for building a successful mobile app

Summary