Mastering Xamarin.Forms - Second Edition电子书

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Mastering Xamarin.Forms Second Edition

Dedication

www.packtpub.com

Why subscribe?

PacktPub.com

Foreword

Contributors

About the author

Acknowledgments

About the reviewer

Packt is searching for authors like you

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Download the example code files

Conventions used

Get in touch

Reviews

Getting Started

Introducing the app idea

Defining features

Creating the initial app

Setting up the solution

Updating the Xamarin.Forms packages

Creating the main page

Creating the new entry page

Creating the entry detail page

Summary

MVVM and Data Binding

Understanding the MVVM pattern

Adding MVVM to the app

Setting up the app structure

Adding ViewModels

Adding MainViewModel

Adding DetailViewModel

Adding NewEntryViewModel

Summary

Navigation

The Xamarin.Forms navigation API

Navigation and MVVM

The ViewModel-centric navigation

Creating a navigation service

Updating the TripLog app

Updating BaseViewModel

Updating MainViewModel

Initializing MainViewModel

Updating NewEntryViewModel

Updating DetailPage

Summary

Platform Specific Services and Dependency Injection

Inversion of control and dependency injection in mobile apps

Xamarin.Forms DependencyService versus third-party alternatives

Creating and using platform-specific services

Creating a location service

Using the location service on the new entry page

Adding the location service implementation

Registering dependencies

Registering the platform-service implementations

Registering the ViewModels

Registering the navigation service

Updating the TripLog app

Updating the navigation service to handle ViewModel creation and dependency injection

Summary

User Interface

Custom renderers

Creating a TableView DatePicker

Value converters

Creating a reverse visibility value converter

Creating an integer to image value converter

Adding pull-to-refresh

Accessibility

Supporting screen readers

Summary

API Data Access

Creating an API with Microsoft's Azure App Service

Browsing and adding data

Creating a base HTTP service

Creating an API data service

Updating the TripLog app ViewModels

Offline data caching

Adding the Akavache library

Maintaining an offline data cache

Summary

Authentication

Adding identity and authentication to Azure Mobile Apps

Setting up permissions

Setting up an identity provider

Creating an authentication service

Adding a sign in page

Summary

Testing

Unit testing

Testing ViewModels

Running unit tests in Visual Studio

Summary

App Monitoring

Mobile app analytics and crash reporting

Visual Studio App Center

Setting up Visual Studio App Center

Creating an analytics service

Tracking exceptions and events

Summary

Other Books You May Enjoy

Leave a review - let other readers know what you think