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Xamarin.Forms Projects

You're reading from   Xamarin.Forms Projects Build seven real-world cross-platform mobile apps with C# and Xamarin.Forms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789537505
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Hindrikes Daniel Hindrikes
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Johan Karlsson Johan Karlsson
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Xamarin 2. Building Our First Xamarin.Forms App FREE CHAPTER 3. A Matchmaking App with a Rich UX Using Animations 4. Building a Location Tracking App Using GPS and Maps 5. Building a Weather App for Multiple Form Factors 6. Setting up a Backend for a Chat App Using Azure Services 7. Building a Real-Time Chat Application 8. Creating an Augmented-Reality Game 9. Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog Using Machine Learning 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building the chat app

It's time to start building the app. We recommend that you use the same method as in Chapter 6, Setting up a Backend for a Chat App Using Azure Services, because this will make code sharing easier. In that solution, create a Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms) with the name Chat:

Select the Blank template and use .NET Standard as the Code Sharing Strategy. Select iOS and Android as the platforms. After we have created the project, we will update all NuGet packages to the latest versions because the project templates are not updated as often as the packages that are used inside the templates:

Creating the chat service

The first thing we will do is create a chat service that will be used by both the iOS...

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