Xamarin Mobile Application Development is a hands-on Xamarin.Forms primer and a cross-platform
reference for building native Android iOS and Windows Phone apps using C# and .NET. This book
explains how to use Xamarin.Forms Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS to build business apps for
your customers and consumer apps for Google Play and the iTunes App Store. Learn how to
leverage Xamarin.Forms for cross-platform development using the most common UI pages layouts
views controls and design patterns. Combine these with platform-specific UI to craft a
visually stunning and highly interactive mobile user experience. Use Xamarin.Forms to data bind
your UI to both data models and to view models for a Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
implementation. Use this book to answer the important question: Is Xamarin.Forms right for my
project? Platform-specific UI is a key concept in cross-platform development and
Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS are the foundation of the Xamarin platform. Xamarin Mobile
Application Development will cover how to build an Android app using Xamarin.Android and an iOS
app using Xamarin.iOS while sharing a core code library. SQLite is the database-of-choice for
many Xamarin developers. This book will explain local data access techniques using SQLite.NET
and ADO.NET. Build a mobile data access layer (DAL) using SQLite and weigh your options for web
services and enterprise cloud data solutions. This book will show how organize your Xamarin
code into a professional-grade application architecture. Explore solution-building techniques
from starter-to-enterprise to help you decouple your functional layers manage your
platform-specific code and share your cross-platform classes for code reuse testability and
maintainability. Also included are 250+ screenshots on iOS Android and Windows Phone and 200+
C# code examples with downloadable C# and XAML versions available from Apress.com. This
comprehensive recipe andreference book addresses one of the most important and vexing problems
in the software industry today: How do we effectively design and develop cross-platform mobile
applications?
