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You're reading from Xamarin.Forms Projects Build multiplatform mobile apps and a game from scratch using C# and Visual Studio 2019

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839210051

Length 504 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Visual Studio

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Daniel Hindrikes

Johan Karlsson

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Xamarin

2. Building Our First Xamarin.Forms App FREE CHAPTER

3. Building a News App Using Xamarin.Forms Shell

4. A Matchmaking App with a Rich UX Using Animations

5. Building a Photo Gallery App Using CollectionView and CarouselView

6. Building a Location Tracking App Using GPS and Maps

7. Building a Weather App for Multiple Form Factors

8. Setting Up a Backend for a Chat App Using Azure Services

9. Building a Real-Time Chat Application

10. Creating an Augmented Reality Game

11. Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog Using Machine Learning

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Xamarin platforms

The different Xamarin platforms available are Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Mac. In this section, we will take a look at each of them.

Xamarin.iOS

Xamarin.iOS is used to build apps for iOS with .NET and contains the bindings to the iOS APIs mentioned previously. Xamarin.iOS uses AOT compiling to compile the C# code into Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) assembly language. The Mono runtime runs alongside the Objective-C runtime. Code that uses .NET namespaces, such as System.Linq or System.Net, are executed by the Mono runtime, while code that uses iOS-specific namespaces are executed by the Objective-C runtime. Both the Mono runtime and the Objective-C runtime run on top of the X is Not Unix (XNU) Unix-like kernel (https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu), which was developed by Apple. The following diagram shows an overview of the iOS architecture:

Xamarin.Android

Xamarin.Android is used to build apps for Android with .NET and contains bindings to the Android APIs...

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Authors (2)

Hindrikes

Hindrikes

Daniel Hindrikes is a developer and architect with a passion for developing mobile apps powered by the cloud. Daniel fell in love with Xamarin in the early days of Xamarin when he realized that he could use C# even for iOS and Android apps, and that he could share code with the Windows apps he was also building. But Daniel started to build mobile apps long before that, working on Android apps with Java and even Java ME apps (a long, long time ago). Daniel enjoys sharing his knowledge and can be found speaking at conferences, blogging, or recording the podcast, The Code Behind. Daniel works at the company tretton37 in Sweden and has experience working with both local and global customers.

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Karlsson

Karlsson

Johan Karlsson has been working with Xamarin since the days of MonoTouch and Mono for Android, and it all started with writing a game. He is a full-stack developer, currently focusing on mobile applications using Xamarin, but has in the past worked a lot with ASP.NET MVC, Visual Basic.NET (not proud), and C# in general. Also, he's created a whole bunch of databases in SQL Server over the years. Johan works at tretton37 in Sweden and has about 20 years' experience in the trade of assembling ones and zeros.

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