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Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development

You're reading from   Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development Develop powerful cross-platform applications with Xamarin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786465412
Length 292 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Xamarin Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Hello, Platforms! 3. Code Sharing Between iOS and Android 4. XamSnap - A Cross-Platform App 5. XamSnap for iOS 6. XamSnap for Android 7. Deploying and Testing on Devices 8. Contacts, Camera, and Location 9. Web Services with Push Notifications 10. Third-Party Libraries 11. Xamarin.Forms 12. App Store Submission

Using XPath in Java bindings


So, before we get started on solving these issues in our Java binding, let's first clean up the namespaces in the project. Java namespaces are in the form com.mycompany.mylibrary by default, so let's change the definition to match C# more closely. In the Transforms directory of the project, open Metadata.xml and add the following XML tag inside the root metadata node:

<attr path="/api/package[@name='com.google.analytics.tracking   
  .android']" name="managedName">GoogleAnalytics.Tracking</attr> 

The attr node tells the Xamarin compiler what needs to be replaced, in the Java definition, with another value. In this case, we are replacing managedName of the package with GoogleAnalytics.Tracking because it will make much more sense in C#. The path value may look a bit strange, which is because it is using an XML matching query language named XPath. In general, just think of it as a pattern matching query for XML. For full documentation on XPath...

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