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Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook

You're reading from   Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to unleash full potential for Xamarin in development and monetization of feature-packed, real-world Android apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398576
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Matthew Leibowitz Matthew Leibowitz
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Preface 1. Working with Xamarin.Android FREE CHAPTER 2. Showing Views and Handling Fragments 3. Managing App Data 4. Presenting App Data 5. Communicating with the Outside World 6. Using Background Tasks 7. Notifying Users 8. Interacting with Other Apps 9. Presenting Multimedia 10. Responding to the User 11. Connecting to Wearables 12. Adding In-App Billing 13. Publishing Apps Index

Introduction

Communication is one of the most important aspects of human existence. Everyone communicates with someone else at some point in their lives.

We as humans speak, write, draw, and move to send a message or convey some sort of message to someone else. Babies cry, children speak, and adults write to let someone else know what they are doing or what they want the other person to do.

Communication can be an instruction to do something, or it can be an expression of feelings. Communication can also be a means of sharing data or information.

Mobile apps are very similar to humans when it comes to communication, not because apps inherently want to share, but rather as a result of having a user. Users of the app want to share or communicate, and thus the app is designed to share or communicate.

Not only do users want to share data they have communicated with the rest of the world, such as through social media, they may also want to share data with a specific device. These devices may belong...

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