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Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development

You're reading from   Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development Master the skills required to develop cross-platform applications from drawing board to app store(s) using Xamarin

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Product type Course
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120129
Length 1049 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jonathan Peppers Jonathan Peppers
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Can Bilgin Can Bilgin
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Chapter 6. Platform Extras

This chapter concentrates on platform-specific APIs and features. It explains some of the peripherals that can be employed in Xamarin applications. We will also discuss native libraries and how to include them in cross platform Xamarin applications. The following topics will be discussed:

  • Content sharing
  • Peripherals
  • Location data
  • Native libraries

Content sharing

Each Xamarin target platform implements a certain strategy to share formatted content between the applications. Sharing implementations increases the visibility of your applications by allowing users to open files from your application in any other app. In addition, these types of implementations provide added value to the quality of your cross platform projects from the nativity perspective.

The inter-application sharing occurs with the underlying runtime acting as a broker between the sharing source and target applications. On iOS and Windows Store applications, the sharing is facilitated in the form...

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