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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

Product type Course

Published in Aug 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787120129

Length 1049 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Xamarin

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (3):

Jonathan Peppers

George Taskos

Can Bilgin

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Table of Contents (6) Chapters

Preface

1. Module 1 FREE CHAPTER

2. Module 2

3. Module 3

A. Bibliography

Index

Index

A

acceptance tests
- creating, with Xamarin.UITest / Creating acceptance tests with Xamarin.UITest, How to do it…, How it works…, There's more…
action / Using the iOS designer
ActionBarSherlock / The most common components
action sheets / Popover and alerts (iOS)
activity / Building your first Android application
activity lifecycle (Android)
- about / Activity lifecycle (Android)
- active/running / Active/Running
- paused / Paused
- Backgrounded state / Backgrounded
- stopped / Stopped
- restarted / Restarted
adapter
- setting up / Setting up the adapter
alert dialogs / Popover and alerts (iOS)
Amazon web services
- about / Learning Windows Azure
- URL / Learning Windows Azure
Android
- ViewGroups / Layouts and ViewGroups in Andorid
- contacts, retrieving on / Retrieving contacts on Android
- GPS location, implementing on / Implementing GPS location on Android
- photos, accessing on / Accessing photos...

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Authors (3)

Can Bilgin

Can Bilgin

Can Bilgin currently works with Authority Partners Inc. as a Solution Architect. He has been working in the software industry, primarily with Microsoft technologies, for over a decade and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his technical contributions between 2014 and 2018. In this period, he took key roles in projects for high profile clients using technologies such as BizTalk, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Xamarin, WCF, Azure Serverless and other web/cloud technologies. He is passionate about mobile and IoT development using the modern tools available for developers. He shares his experience on his blog, social media and through speaking engagements in local and international community events.

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Jonathan Peppers

Jonathan Peppers

Jonathan Peppers is a Xamarin MVP and lead developer on popular apps and games at Hitcents such as the Hanx Writer (for Tom Hanks) and the Draw a Stickman franchise. Jon has been working with C# for over 10 years working on a wide range of projects at Hitcents. Jon began his career working Self-Checkout software written in WinForms and later migrated to WPF. Over his career, he has worked with many .NET-centric technologies such as ASP.Net WebForms, MVC, Windows Azure, WinRT/UWP, F#, and Unity3D. In recent years, Hitcents has been heavily investing in mobile development with Xamarin, and has development over 50 mobile applications across multiple platforms.

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George Taskos

George Taskos

George Taskos is a senior software engineer. He has been creating applications professionally since 2005, and he started coding at the age of 8. George has worked as a consultant for the past 10 years in the enterprise and consumer domains. George is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer since 2009 and Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer. Throughout his career, he has created multitier interoperable applications with various technologies, including Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET MVC, SOAP, and REST web services, focusing on native iOS/Android and Xamarin Cross Platform Mobile applications for the past 5 years. As a professional, he worked with small and large enterprises in Greece, Cyprus, South Africa, UK, and USA where he is currently based in New York City. George is a passionate engineer involved in the start-up community by contributing his free time. He was a member of the BugSense mobile analytics team that was acquired by a NASDAQ big data analytics corporation in 2013. Currently, he is working with Verisk Analytics, a NASDAQ 100 company, leading the engineering of Xamarin iOS/Android platforms and working in general software architecture of products.

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