Learn the bare essentials needed to begin developing cross-platform mobile apps using
Xamarin.Forms. Apps can be easily deployed to Google Play or to the Apple App Store. You will
gain insight on architecture and how to arrange your app's design where to begin developing
what pitfalls exist and how to avoid them. Also covered are expected new features in
Xamarin.Forms 3.0 so you may be prepared ahead of time for what the next release brings.
Xamarin.Forms Essentials provides a brief history of Xamarin as a company including how their
product has become one of the most-used cross-platform technologies for enterprise
applications and app development across the world. Examples in the book are built around a
real-life example that is an actual app in Google Play and in the Apple App Store and has
thousands of downloads between iOS and Android. You will learn how an application is set up
from scratch and you will benefit from the author's hard-won experience and tips in addressing
various development challenges. What You'll Learn Create cross-platform user interfaces from
one code base for both iOS and Android See how a commercial application is built and then
deployed for sale in the app stores Integrate your Xamarin.Forms applications with third-party
RESTful APIs Arrange application architecture to avoid pitfalls and optimize your design Get a
heads-up on new features released as part of Xamarin.Forms 3.0 Choose appropriately between
Xamarin.Forms and traditional Xamarin depending upon your application needs and its goals Who
This Book Is For Mobile app developers who are producing software for multiple platforms
including Google Android and Apple iOS. Readers should be familiar with Visual Studio either on
Mac OS X or Windows and have a working knowledge of C#.
