Chapter 1. One Ring to Rule Them All
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Creating a cross-platform solution
- Creating a cross-platform login screen
- Using common platform features
- Authenticating with Facebook and Google providers
Introduction
Xamarin.Forms is a cross-platform UI framework where the idea is no longer to share only your models, business logic, and data access layers similar to a traditional Xamarin solution but also the user interface (UI) across iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. With Xamarin.Forms, you can easily and quickly create great data-driven and utility applications or prototypes.
To accomplish this, Xamarin uses the super-modern C# language, the power of the .NET Base Class Libraries (BCL), these are C# bindings to the native APIs, and two great IDEs, Xamarin Studio and Microsoft Visual Studio. You can't, however, create iOS applications if you don't have a Mac connected to the network and acting as a server to build and deploy your...
