Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android, Second Edition: Develop, test, and deliver fully-featured Android applications using Xamarin

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2.7 (3 Ratings)

eBook Aug 2015 296 pages 1st Edition

Panigrahy

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eBook Aug 2015 296 pages 1st Edition

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Technology trends come and go, but few have generated the excitement, momentum, or long-term impact that mobile computing has. Mobile computing impacts people’s lives at work and at home on a daily basis. Many companies and individual developers are looking to become a part of the movement but are unsure how to best utilize their existing skills and assets. The Xamarin suite of products provides new opportunities to those who already have a significant investment in C# development skills and .NET code bases, and would like to enter into this new, exciting world. This example-oriented guide provides a practical approach to quickly learn the fundamentals of Android app development using C# and Xamarin.Android. It will lead you through building an Android app step-by-step with steadily increasing complexity. Beginning with an overview of the Android and Xamarin platforms to provide you with a solid understanding of the underlying platform, we gradually walk through building and testing a Points of Interest Android app using C# and the Xamarin.Android product. You will learn to create ListView and add detail view to your Android application. You will handle application behaviors on orientation changes, before learning the different techniques to manage resources and layouts to support multiple screen sizes. You will then access a SQLite database in a cross-platform way and add location features to your application. Finally, you will add camera integration to your application and deploy your app to the various Android app stores.

Who is this book for?

If you are a C# developer who wants to develop Android apps and enhance your existing skill set, then this book is ideal for you. Good working knowledge of C#, .NET, and object-oriented software development is assumed.

What you will learn

Build a multiview, orientationaware Android application with navigation
Lay out content using the LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, and TableLayout layout managers
Use a ListView (AdapterView) and Adapter to build a view that is populated from server data
Consume REST web service to perform GET, UPDATE, DELETE operation
Use Android SQLite for data persistence and caching
Capture the current location of a device, determine the street address, and integrate with the map app
Test, debug, and deploy an Android app

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Pietro F. Maggi Sep 13, 2015

Nice book to get C# developer quickly up to speed with Xamarin for Android Development.The first two chapters are a very quick introduction to the basic Android and Xamarin architecture concepts, especially the first chapter on Android is very skinny given the size of the topic, but ehi, this is Xamarin book!The rest of the book, from chapter three to eleven, drive you on the process to build a Point of Interest application from the start to the publishing process.This kind of approach is sometime risky, largely depending on the application the author choose to implement. In this case the application, even if a basic one, allows to touch a lot of the point o a real world application, from Activity/Fragment lifecycle management to data persistence and Webservice integration.Overall I liked the book and I've found some good insight in it. I gave only four star and not five because the approach to write the book around a single application does not allows to touch all the topics of the Xamarin for Android platform. However, if you're looking for a beginner introduction to Xamarin for Android, this book is a really good choice.

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Trenton L. Aug 17, 2017

My Senior Design Project was developing an app using Xamarin mobile development. This book did NOT help

Anthony Scarpelli Sep 16, 2020

This book is almost usable, but it is way out of date already.Xamarin Studio IDE no longer exists which is what you would use with this book.You can create the application in Visual Studio 2019 if you try hard enough, but you need to know that the application created in Visual Studio is not quite the same as is described in the book.I was able to get through the building of the app up to a certain point, then the differences will sock you in the head and you just can't go further unless you are more experienced.Too bad.Can't recommend it until they update it again for the current time frame.

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