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You're reading from Mastering Xamarin.Forms Build rich, maintainable, multi-platform, native mobile apps with Xamarin.Forms

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788290265

Length 192 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Tools

Xamarin

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Ed Snider

Roberto Hernandez

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started

2. MVVM and Data Binding FREE CHAPTER

3. Navigation

4. Platform Specific Services and Dependency Injection

5. User Interface

6. API Data Access

7. Authentication

8. Testing

9. App Monitoring

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Summary

In this chapter, we created a live API from scratch using Azure App Services. We then created a data service within our app to handle communication between the app and the API. Then, by adding a reference to this service to our ViewModels, we quickly transformed the app from using static data to using live data from our new API. Finally, we setup offline data caching.

In the next chapter, we will add authentication to our API and update the app with sign-in capabilities.

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Authors (2)

Hernandez

Raydelto Hernandez is a software engineer and university professor living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He has developed games for BlackBerry 10, Android, and iOS. He currently teaches topics related to game development at INTEC University. At the age of 22, he started teaching at Las Americas Institute of Technology, where he earned the Professor of the Year award many times. Then he the became director of the software development center. He has also taught at UNAPEC University, UNIBE University, and INTEC University, where he is currently a research professor. He is a BlackBerry Certified Builder, Zend Certified Engineer, Certified Java programmer, CompTIA A+ professional, and Microsoft Technology Associate. Raydelto has posted on YouTube dozens of video tutorials on different programming environments, which are also available on his website at www.raydelto.org. Here, you can also find information about his open source projects. Raydelto has founded two technology companies, Soluciones GBH (in 2005) and AST Technology (in 2008), which develop software for all platforms.

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Ed Snider

Ed Snider is a senior software developer, speaker, author, and Microsoft MVP based in the Washington D.C./Northern Virginia area. He has a passion for mobile design and development and regularly speaks about Xamarin and Windows app development in the community. Ed works at InfernoRed Technology, where his primary role is working with clients and partners to build mobile and media focused products on iOS, Android, and Windows. He started working with the .NET framework in 2005 when .NET 2.0 came out and has been building mobile apps with .NET since 2011. Ed blogs at edsnider[dot]net and can be found on Twitter at twitter[dot]com/edsnider.

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