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You're reading from Xamarin.Forms Projects Build multiplatform mobile apps and a game from scratch using C# and Visual Studio 2019

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839210051

Length 504 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Tools

Visual Studio

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Daniel Hindrikes

Johan Karlsson

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Xamarin

2. Building Our First Xamarin.Forms App FREE CHAPTER

3. Building a News App Using Xamarin.Forms Shell

4. A Matchmaking App with a Rich UX Using Animations

5. Building a Photo Gallery App Using CollectionView and CarouselView

6. Building a Location Tracking App Using GPS and Maps

7. Building a Weather App for Multiple Form Factors

8. Setting Up a Backend for a Chat App Using Azure Services

9. Building a Real-Time Chat Application

10. Creating an Augmented Reality Game

11. Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog Using Machine Learning

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Building a Real-Time Chat Application

In this chapter, we will build a chat app with real-time communication. In the app, you will be able to send and receive messages and photos to and from other users, which will appear without a manual refresh. We will look at how we can use SignalR to implement a real-time connection with the server.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

How to use SignalR in a Xamarin.Forms app
How to use template selectors for a CollectionView
How to use CSS styling in a Xamarin.Forms app

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Authors (2)

Hindrikes

Daniel Hindrikes is a developer and architect with a passion for developing mobile apps powered by the cloud. Daniel fell in love with Xamarin in the early days of Xamarin when he realized that he could use C# even for iOS and Android apps, and that he could share code with the Windows apps he was also building. But Daniel started to build mobile apps long before that, working on Android apps with Java and even Java ME apps (a long, long time ago). Daniel enjoys sharing his knowledge and can be found speaking at conferences, blogging, or recording the podcast, The Code Behind. Daniel works at the company tretton37 in Sweden and has experience working with both local and global customers.

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Karlsson

Johan Karlsson has been working with Xamarin since the days of MonoTouch and Mono for Android, and it all started with writing a game. He is a full-stack developer, currently focusing on mobile applications using Xamarin, but has in the past worked a lot with ASP.NET MVC, Visual Basic.NET (not proud), and C# in general. Also, he's created a whole bunch of databases in SQL Server over the years. Johan works at tretton37 in Sweden and has about 20 years' experience in the trade of assembling ones and zeros.

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