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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

Setting up Material Design


Beginning with Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google released a new theme and color palette for Android applications called Material Design. It is a good idea to adopt material design for new apps, as it gives you a modern Android look, with little effort to setup. For more information on material design, check out Google's documentation at: https://developer.android.com/design/material/index.html.

To make material design (and other new Android features) easier to adopt, Google has also released an AppCompat library for Android so you can support these newer features on older Android OS versions. Xamarin supports a version of the AppCompat library on NuGet so that it is easy to set up for Xamarin.Android applications.

To set up the Android support library, follow these steps:

  1. Right-click on Packages and select Add Packages.

  2. Search for Xamarin.Android.Support.v7.AppCompat.

  3. Click Add Package.

  4. NuGet will download the library and its dependencies, referencing them in your Android...

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