Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, Preview Edition (Developer Reference)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (992 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00NXYJ8DK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 406 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I want to read the rest of it now!" according to DevGuy. I read the preview edition and really like it! I wish I could get may hands on the rest of the chapters. I'm turning into a Xamarin fan boy and have not even download it yet. I think this is going to be a great book for begin phone developers like me. I have a background in C# and this seems like home to me. I have read two other Xamarin books all good but this one could be a step above the others! I learned some things I did not get from the the other Xamarin books or from the Xamarin web site. This preview got me thinking about how the book . Sheldon Sides said Very good book for a Preview Version. Outstanding book just to be the preview version. I would highly recommend this book to any .NET Developer looking to use their skills to built cross platform mobile apps. The books teaches you just enough to get your feet wet.. "One of the great technical writers of our time" according to Dan Hermes. One of the great technical writers of our time covers one of the most important technical topics of our time: cross-platform mobile development.The book begins with an overview of where Xamarin.Forms fits into the overall scheme of mobile development. Then he dives into the code:- Creating pages, organizing controls(Views) on a page using layouts- Background threading, a crucial topic in mobile dev, and data binding using OnPropertyChanged- UI implementation, such as fonts, colors, justification, and text handling and wrapping- Images and bitm
Written by programming legend Charles Petzold and created jointly by Microsoft Press and Xamarin Inc., this Preview Edition ebook is about writing applications for Xamarin.Forms, the new mobile development platform for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone unveiled by Xamarin in May 2014. Xamarin.Forms lets you write shared user-interface code in C# and XAML (the eXtensible Application Markup Language) that maps to native controls on these three platforms. (The final edition of this ebook will be published in the spring of 2015.) This ebook is for C# programmers who want to write applications for the three most popular mobile platforms—iOS, Android, and Windows Phone—with a single code base. In particular, the introduction of the async keyword and await operator in Chapter 3 follows a discussion that shows how to do asynchronous programming using traditional callback methods.. Xamarin.Forms can be a big help in getting started with these platforms or in constructing a prototype or proof-of-concept application. However, when it describes some C# and .NET features that might be somewhat n