Summary

In this chapter, we built a gallery application on both iOS and Android using native development with Xamarin. We learnt how to setup projects in Xamarin Studio and code using the native frameworks in C#. In the next chapter, we will build a text to speech service using Xamarin.Forms.

Try improving on this code and make this function asynchronous; the more background processing we have at this stage, the better. These are the small improvements we should take time with, as combining all these small additions can create a real difference to the speed of your application.

As this is only a demo, we are only going to take the first 100 items. If you would like another challenge, remove Take(100), and see if you can adjust the code to load thousands of images more  efficiently.