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Xamarin in Action: Creating native cross-platform mobile apps
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.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
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
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 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 jimbobbennett.io.
Table of Contents
PART 1 - GETTING STARTED WITH XAMARIN PART 2 - BUILDING APPS PART 3 - FROM WORKING CODE TO THE STORE
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.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
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
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 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 jimbobbennett.io.
Table of Contents
PART 1 - GETTING STARTED WITH XAMARIN PART 2 - BUILDING APPS PART 3 - FROM WORKING CODE TO THE STORE
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608 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2018
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About the author
Jim Bennett
140 books8 followersI am an artist and writer and currently working on a thriller
The Poughkeepsie Mystery
. Among my previous books are
To Catch a Tiger
, a semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age story about growing up in the South during the Civil Rights Era,
Calligraphy For Dummies, Calligraphy for Creative Kids, Secrets of the Wizard.
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September 23, 2020
Well written and a great book for Xamarin beginners, covers the journey of Xamarin app creation from design all the way to the App Store, with good focus on both unit and UI level tests.
Not 5 stars due to being a little dated and tightly coupled to the MvvmCross framework.
Not 5 stars due to being a little dated and tightly coupled to the MvvmCross framework.
March 5, 2021
Great for getting up to speed if you’re new to Xamarin and fairly new to C#
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