Learn the bare essentials needed to begin developing cross-platform,
mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms. Apps can be easily deployed to Google
Play or to the Apple App Store. You will gain insight on architecture
and how to arrange your app's design, where to begin developing, what
pitfalls exist, and how to avoid them. Also covered are expected new
features in Xamarin.Forms 3.0, so you may be prepared ahead of time for
what the next release brings.
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.
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#. **
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