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Mobile Development with .NET

You're reading from   Mobile Development with .NET Build cross-platform mobile applications with Xamarin.Forms 5 and ASP.NET Core 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204690
Length 572 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Understanding .NET
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with .NET 5.0 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Defining Xamarin, Mono, and .NET Standard 4. Chapter 3: Developing with Universal Windows Platform 5. Section 2: Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms
6. Chapter 4: Developing Mobile Applications with Xamarin 7. Chapter 5: UI Development with Xamarin 8. Chapter 6: Customizing Xamarin.Forms 9. Section 3: Azure Cloud Services
10. Chapter 7: Azure Services for Mobile Applications 11. Chapter 8: Creating a Datastore with Cosmos DB 12. Chapter 9: Creating Microservices Azure App Services 13. Chapter 10: Using .NET Core for Azure Serverless 14. Section 4: Advanced Mobile Development
15. Chapter 11: Fluid Applications with Asynchronous Patterns 16. Chapter 12: Managing Application Data 17. Chapter 13: Engaging Users with Notifications and the Graph API 18. Section 5: Application Life Cycle Management
19. Chapter 14: Azure DevOps and Visual Studio App Center 20. Chapter 15: Application Telemetry with Application Insights 21. Chapter 16: Automated Testing 22. Chapter 17: Deploying Azure Modules 23. Chapter 18: CI/CD with Azure DevOps 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 3: Developing with Universal Windows Platform

Universal Windows Platform (UWP) is a common API layer that allows developers to create applications for various platforms, from desktop PCs to niche devices such as HoloLens. Compared to the Xamarin setup, UWP applications are a little more coupled with .NET Framework and runtime components. UWP makes use of two completely different sets of .NET Framework: .NET Native and .NET Core. Here, .NET Core acts as the BCL library, while .NET Native is part of the application model.

This chapter will discuss the components that allow UWP apps to be portable within the Windows 10 ecosystem and how they are associated with .NET. We will recreate the calculator example from the previous chapter for the Universal Windows Platform using Xamarin.Forms, and then try to identify the differences between Xamarin.Forms and UWP from a XAML perspective. We will also look at how .NET Native can be utilized for UWP.

The following sections will...

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