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Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785285684
Length 390 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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

Troubleshooting and diagnosis

Profiling is the term used to describe the dynamic system analysis while the target application is running. Profilers generally collect data about metrics such as CPU utilization, framerate values, and most importantly data about memory allocations. Especially with Xamarin projects, since we are dealing with multiple platforms, profiling becomes an important part of testing and diagnostics.

There are numerous tools that one can use to profile memory usage on Xamarin projects, Xamarin Profiler being the only one that can be used both for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android applications.

Xamarin Profiler

Xamarin Profiler is the newest addition to the Xamarin Suite. This profiler has the advantage over other platform-specific applications since it can be run either on OS X or Windows targeting Xamarin.Android or Xamarin.iOS applications.

Xamarin Profiler

Figure 2: Xamarin Profiler

It was designed to give developers almost real time (depending on the sampling rate) information about the...

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