iOS development with Xamarin cookbook : over 100 exciting recipes to help you develop iOS applications with Xamarin / Dimitris Tavlikos ; cover image by Kelly Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tavlikos, Dimitris, author.

Contributor:

Gibson, Kelly, cover designer.

Series:

Quick answers to common problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

iOS (Electronic resource).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

iPhone (Smartphone)--Programming.

iPhone (Smartphone).

iPad (Computer)--Programming.

iPad (Computer).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Over one hundred exciting recipes to help you develop iOS applications with Xamarin

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book is written in a recipe format with practical examples, allowing you to go directly to your topic of interest or follow topics throughout a chapter to gain an indepth knowledge. There are also plenty of hints and best practices along the way. If you are a C#/.NET developer with no previous experience in iOS development or an ObjectiveC developer who wants to create complete iOS applications and deploy them to the App Store, then this book is ideal for you. No experience with Xamarin is needed.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Development Tools; Introduction; Installing prerequisites; Creating an iOS project with Xamarin Studio; Interface Builder; Creating the UI; Accessing the UI with Outlets; Adding Actions to controls; Compiling an iOS project; Debugging our application; Chapter 2: User Interface - Views; Introduction; Adding and customizing views; Receiving user input with buttons; Displaying images; Displaying and editing text; Using the keyboard; Displaying progress

Displaying content larger than the screenNavigating through the content divided into pages; Displaying alerts; Creating a custom view; Styling views; Chapter 3: User Interface - View Controllers; Introduction; Loading a view with a view controller; Navigating through different view controllers; Providing controllers in tabs; Modal view controllers; Creating a custom view controller; Using view controllers efficiently; iPad view controllers; UI flow design with storyboards; Unwinding in storyboards; Chapter 4: Data Management; Introduction; Creating files; Using an SQLite database

Preparing for iCloud supportiCloud key/value storage; Chapter 5: Displaying Data; Introduction; Providing lists; Displaying data in a table; Customizing rows; Editing a table; Table indexing; Searching through the data; Creating a simple web browser; Displaying data in a grid; Customizing the grid; Chapter 6: Web Services; Introduction; Consuming web services; Consuming REST services; Communicating with native APIs; Using WCF services; Chapter 7: Multimedia Resources; Introduction; Selecting images and videos; Capturing media with the camera; Playing videos; Playing music and sounds

Recording with the microphoneManaging album items directly; Chapter 8: Integrating iOS Features; Introduction; Starting phone calls; Sending text messages and e-mails; Using text messaging in our application; Using e-mail messaging in our application; Managing the address book; Displaying contacts; Managing the calendar; Chapter 9: Interacting with Device Hardware; Introduction; Detecting the device orientation; Adjusting the UI orientation; Proximity sensor; Retrieving the battery information; Handling motion events; Handling touch events; Recognizing gestures; Custom gestures

Using the accelerometerUsing the gyroscope; Chapter 10: Location Services and Maps; Introduction; Determining location; Determining heading; Using region monitoring; Using a significant-change location service; Location services in the background; Displaying maps; Geocoding; Adding map annotations; Adding map overlays; Chapter 11: Graphics and Animation; Introduction; Animating views; Transforming views; Animating images; Animating layers; Drawing lines and curves; Drawing shapes; Drawing text; A simple drawing app; Creating an image context; Chapter 12: Multitasking; Introduction

Detecting application states

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 12, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783550005

1783550007

OCLC:

881035319