You're reading from Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin Master the skills required to steer cross-platform applications from drawing board to app store(s) using Xamarin

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785285684

Length 390 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Xamarin

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Developing with Xamarin FREE CHAPTER

2. Memory Management

3. Asynchronous Programming

4. Local Data Management

5. Networking

6. Platform Extras

7. View Elements

8. Xamarin.Forms

9. Reusable UI Patterns

10. ALM – Developers and QA

11. ALM – Project and Release Management

12. ALM – App Stores and Publishing

Index

Chapter 1. Developing with Xamarin

This chapter examines the Xamarin framework and architecture on different target platforms and identifies the differences and similarities. It also includes introductory information and tips on preparing the development environment for Xamarin and covers some of the Xamarin development essentials. This chapter is divided into the following sections:

Cross-platform projects with Xamarin
Target platforms
Setting up the development environment
Emulator options
A typical Xamarin solution structure
Quality in cross-development