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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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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Summary

In this chapter, we went over what Windows Azure provides: Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service. We set up a free Windows Azure account and set up an Azure Function App instance. We implemented the client-side code for making requests against our Azure Functions. Lastly, we implemented push notifications for iOS using Azure Notification Hubs to consolidate messages going to iOS devices via the Apple Push Notification service and Android via Google Cloud Messaging.

Using Azure Functions, we were able to get by without writing too much server-side code. In the next chapter, we'll explore how to use third-party libraries with Xamarin. This includes everything from the Xamarin Component Store to using native Objective-C or Java libraries.

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