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Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

You're reading from   Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core Build cross-platform mobile applications with Xamarin, Visual Studio 2019, and .NET Core 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789538519
Length 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: .NET Core and Cross-Platform Philosophy
2. Getting Started with .NET Core FREE CHAPTER 3. Xamarin, Mono, and .NET Standard 4. Universal Windows Platform 5. Section 2: Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
6. Developing Mobile Applications with Xamarin 7. UI Development with Xamarin 8. Customizing Xamarin.Forms 9. Section 3: Azure Cloud Services
10. Azure Services for Mobile Applications 11. Creating a Datastore with Cosmos DB 12. Creating Microservices Azure App Services 13. Using .NET Core for Azure Serverless 14. Section 4: Advanced Mobile Development
15. Fluid Applications with Asynchronous Patterns 16. Managing Application Data 17. Engaging Users with Notifications and the Graph API 18. Introducing Cognitive Services 19. Section 5: Application Life Cycle Management
20. Azure DevOps and Visual Studio App Center 21. Application Telemetry with Application Insights 22. Automated Testing 23. Deploying Azure Modules 24. CI/CD with Azure DevOps 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Xamarin on Android – Mono Droid

Following the same methodology, we can recreate the Xamarin.Forms view we created using Xamarin.Android using a native project template. In order to do this, we can reuse the existing Xamarin classic project that we used for iOS and add an Android application project instead:

This will create a standard boilerplate application project for Xamarin.Android with a single view and associated layout file. If you open the created Main.axml file, the designer view will be loaded, which can be used to create our welcome view:

When handling the Android XML layout files, developers are given the option to either use the designer or the source view. By using the designer view to create the welcome view, you would have to drag and drop the text view control and adjust the alignment, layout, and gravity properties for the label.

Using the source...

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