Xamarin in action : creating native cross-platform mobile apps / Jim Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Jim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Mobile apps.

Cross-platform software development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Shelter Island, New York : Manning Publications, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Summary Xamarin in Action teaches you to build cross-platform mobile apps using Xamarin and C#. You'll explore all the layers of a Xamarin app, from design to deployment. By the end, you'll be able to build a quality, production-ready Xamarin app on iOS and Android from scratch with a high level of code reuse. About the Technology Rewriting the same app for iOS and Android is tedious, error-prone, and expensive. Microsoft's Xamarin drastically reduces dev time by reusing most application code--typically 70% or more. The core of your iOS and Android app is shared; you write platform-specific code only for the UI layer. And because Xamarin uses C#, your apps benefit from everything this modern language and the .NET ecosystem have to offer. About the Book Xamarin in Action teaches you to build cross-platform mobile apps using Xamarin and C#. You'll explore all the layers of a Xamarin app, from design to deployment. Xamarin expert Jim Bennett teaches you design practices that maximize code reuse and isolate device-specific code, making it a snap to incorporate the unique features of each OS. What's inside Understanding MVVM to maximize code reuse and testability Creating cross-platform model and UI logic layers Building device-specific UIs Unit and automated UI testing Preparing apps for publication with user tracking and crash analytics About the Reader Readers should have some experience with C#. Mobile development experience is helpful, but not assumed. About the Author Jim Bennett is a Xamarin MYP, Microsoft MVP, and Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, specializing in Xamarin mobile apps. He's a frequent speaker at events all around the world, including Xamarin user groups and Xamarin and Microsoft conferences. He regularly blogs about Xamarin development at https://jimbobbennett.io.

Contents:

Intro

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

About the cover illustration

Part 1. Getting started with Xamarin

Chapter 1. Introducing native cross-platform applications with Xamarin

Chapter 2. Hello MVVM-creating a simple cross-platform app using MVVM

Chapter 3. MVVM-the model-view-view model design pattern

Chapter 4. Hello again, MVVM-understanding and enhancing our simple MVVM app

Chapter 5. What are we (a)waiting for? An introduction to multithreading for Xamarin apps

Part 2. Building apps

Chapter 6. Designing MVVM cross-platform apps

Chapter 7. Building cross-platform models

Chapter 8. Building cross-platform view models

Chapter 9. Building simple Android views

Chapter 10. Building more advanced Android views

Chapter 11. Building simple iOS views

Chapter 12. Building more advanced iOS views

Part 3. From working code to the store

Chapter 13. Running mobile apps on physical devices

Chapter 14. Testing mobile apps using Xamarin UITest

Chapter 15. Using App Center to build, test, and monitor apps

Chapter 16. Deploying apps to beta testers and the stores

Appendix A. UI flows and threads for SquareRt and Countr

Appendix B. Using MVVM Light instead of MvvmCross

Appendix C.

Appendix D.

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781638356998

1638356998

9781617294389

1617294381

OCLC:

1039099669