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You're reading from Xamarin.Forms Projects Build multiplatform mobile apps and a game from scratch using C# and Visual Studio 2019

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839210051

Length 504 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Tools

Visual Studio

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Daniel Hindrikes

Johan Karlsson

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Xamarin

2. Building Our First Xamarin.Forms App FREE CHAPTER

3. Building a News App Using Xamarin.Forms Shell

4. A Matchmaking App with a Rich UX Using Animations

5. Building a Photo Gallery App Using CollectionView and CarouselView

6. Building a Location Tracking App Using GPS and Maps

7. Building a Weather App for Multiple Form Factors

8. Setting Up a Backend for a Chat App Using Azure Services

9. Building a Real-Time Chat Application

10. Creating an Augmented Reality Game

11. Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog Using Machine Learning

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Building a Location Tracking App Using GPS and Maps

In this chapter, we will create a location tracking app that saves the location of the user and displays it as a heat map. We will learn how to run tasks in the background on iOS and Android devices and how to use custom renderers to extend the functionality of Xamarin.Forms maps.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

Tracking the location of a user in the background on an iOS device
Tracking the location of a user in the background on an Android device
How to show maps in a Xamarin.Forms app
How to extend the functionality of Xamarin.Forms maps with custom renderers

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Authors (2)

Hindrikes

Daniel Hindrikes is a developer and architect with a passion for developing mobile apps powered by the cloud. Daniel fell in love with Xamarin in the early days of Xamarin when he realized that he could use C# even for iOS and Android apps, and that he could share code with the Windows apps he was also building. But Daniel started to build mobile apps long before that, working on Android apps with Java and even Java ME apps (a long, long time ago). Daniel enjoys sharing his knowledge and can be found speaking at conferences, blogging, or recording the podcast, The Code Behind. Daniel works at the company tretton37 in Sweden and has experience working with both local and global customers.

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Karlsson

Johan Karlsson has been working with Xamarin since the days of MonoTouch and Mono for Android, and it all started with writing a game. He is a full-stack developer, currently focusing on mobile applications using Xamarin, but has in the past worked a lot with ASP.NET MVC, Visual Basic.NET (not proud), and C# in general. Also, he's created a whole bunch of databases in SQL Server over the years. Johan works at tretton37 in Sweden and has about 20 years' experience in the trade of assembling ones and zeros.

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