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Xamarin Blueprints

You're reading from   Xamarin Blueprints Leverage the power of Xamarin to create stunning cross-platform and native apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887444
Length 516 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Williams Michael Williams
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Gallery Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a SpeechTalk Application 3. Building a GPS Locator Application 4. Building an Audio Player Application 5. Building a Stocklist Application 6. Building a Chat Application 7. Building a File Storage Application 8. Building a Camera Application

iOS text-to-speech implementation


Each module will retrieve the current container used throughout the entire lifetime of your application. Inside the register function is where we register the class implementation of the text to speech interface. This will be done at the very start of the application before we load anything else.

Let's start first with adding the iOS module. Add a new folder in the iOS project called Modules, create a new file called iOSModule.cs, and paste in the following:

     
    public class IOSModule : IModule 
    { 
        public void Register(ContainerBuilder builer) 
        { 
            builer.RegisterType<TextToSpeech> ().As<ITextToSpeech> ().SingleInstance (); 
        } 
    } 

The next step is to add the iOS text to speech service. Add a new folder called Services and add a new file called TextToSpeech.cs. In this file, we are going to access the iOS AVSpeechSynthesizer:

public class TextToSpeech : ITextToSpeech...
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