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Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook

You're reading from Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to unleash full potential for Xamarin in development and monetization of feature-packed, real-world Android apps

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784398576

Length 456 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Xamarin

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Matthew Leibowitz

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Working with Xamarin.Android FREE CHAPTER

2. Showing Views and Handling Fragments

3. Managing App Data

4. Presenting App Data

5. Communicating with the Outside World

6. Using Background Tasks

7. Notifying Users

8. Interacting with Other Apps

9. Presenting Multimedia

10. Responding to the User

11. Connecting to Wearables

12. Adding In-App Billing

13. Publishing Apps

Index

Chapter 3. Managing App Data

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Storing data with SharedPreferences
Using files and the filesystem
Reading bundled assets and resources
Parsing, processing, and generating XML
Accessing data with ADO.NET
Accessing data with SQLite.NET
Encrypting databases with SQLCipher
Consuming content providers
Creating content providers
Backing up preferences and files to the cloud
Backing up data to the cloud

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Authors (1)

Leibowitz

Leibowitz

Matthew Leibowitz is a professional software engineer living in South Africa, and is currently working in a Xamarin development team. He has many years of professional experience as a programmer in developing systems ranging from servers, to desktops, to mobile devices. He has a passion for programming and has recently been awarded Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer certification for his work. He has written various articles on his blog and has participated in several forums. With his experience and great passion for development, Matthew spends his days continually looking for new ways to create a better experience for users and other developers. Some of his work is seen on GitHub under the username mattleibow. In addition to his public code, Matthew is active on Twitter with the same username.

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