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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

Content sharing

Each Xamarin target platform implements a certain strategy to share formatted content between the applications. Sharing implementations increases the visibility of your applications by allowing users to open files from your application in any other app. In addition, these types of implementations provide added value to the quality of your cross platform projects from the nativity perspective.

The inter-application sharing occurs with the underlying runtime acting as a broker between the sharing source and target applications. On iOS and Windows Store applications, the sharing is facilitated in the form of abstract file elements. Android applications, however, can take it one step further by sharing formatted data that can be manipulated by the receiving application, which essentially allows the source application to almost act as a data repository.

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On Windows Store, applications can actively share content such as media elements, URIs, text content, and other types of...

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