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Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

By : Can Bilgin
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Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

Mastering Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

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By: Can Bilgin
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Overview of this book

The main goal of this book is to equip you with the required know-how to successfully analyze, develop, and manage Xamarin cross-platform projects using the most efficient, robust, and scalable implementation patterns. This book starts with general topics such as memory management, asynchronous programming, local storage, and networking, and later moves onto platform-specific features. During this transition, you will learn about key tools to leverage the patterns described, as well as advanced implementation strategies and features. The book also presents User Interface design and implementation concepts on Android and iOS platforms from a Xamarin and cross-platform perspective, with the goal to create a consistent but native UI experience. Finally, we show you the toolset for application lifecycle management to help you prepare the development pipeline to manage and see cross-platform projects through to public or private release.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Developing with Xamarin
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1. Developing with Xamarin
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Cross-platform projects with Xamarin
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Target platforms
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Setting up the development environment
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Emulator options
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A typical Xamarin solution structure
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Quality in cross-development
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Summary
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2. Memory Management
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2. Memory Management
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Application Component lifecycle
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Garbage collection
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Platform-specific concepts
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Troubleshooting and diagnosis
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Patterns and best practices
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3. Asynchronous Programming
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3. Asynchronous Programming
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Multithreading on Xamarin
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Asynchronous methods
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Parallel execution
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Background tasks
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4. Local Data Management
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4. Local Data Management
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Data in mobile applications
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Application data
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Local filesystem
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SQLite
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Patterns and best practices
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Backup/Roaming
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5. Networking
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5. Networking
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Connected apps
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Web services
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SignalR
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Patterns and best practices
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Platform-specific concepts
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Cloud integration
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6. Platform Extras
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6. Platform Extras
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Content sharing
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Peripherals
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Location data
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Native libraries
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7. View Elements
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7. View Elements
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Design philosophy
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Design elements
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User interaction
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8. Xamarin.Forms
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8. Xamarin.Forms
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Under the hood
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Components
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Extending forms
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Patterns and best practices
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9. Reusable UI Patterns
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9. Reusable UI Patterns
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Visual assets
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Localization
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Architectural patterns
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10. ALM – Developers and QA
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10. ALM – Developers and QA
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Development pipeline
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Troubleshooting and diagnostics
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Unit testing
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UI testing
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11. ALM – Project and Release Management
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11. ALM – Project and Release Management
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Source control
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Continuous integration
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Automated testing
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Beta deployment
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Live telemetry
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12. ALM – App Stores and Publishing
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12. ALM – App Stores and Publishing
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Release packages
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Distribution options
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Line of Business apps
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Index
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed some of the key features of the Xamarin development suite and development on previously described platforms and looked at Xamarin essentials for developing mobile applications. The remaining chapters refer to these key features and the differences between the platforms to identify valuable patterns and strategies to create cross-platform applications with Xamarin.

The architectural overview of the target platforms and how Xamarin applications are developed and compiled on these platforms were also discussed. The most important difference between these platforms is that Xamarin.Android (and also Windows Phone) uses .NET binaries and mono (and .NET) runtime to execute code, whereas Xamarin.iOS applications have a completely different setup and double compilation (Ahead-of-Time) to make use of .NET binaries, but not to run them directly.

Whilst developing for Android and iOS platforms with Xamarin, developers are also forced to select between different OS platforms and development IDEs. The selection and configuration of the development environment depends on the targeted platforms. IDE features and emulator and simulator options play an important role in this selection. While providing a familiar interface and letting the developers transfer their .NET-related skills and know-how, the OS X operating system together with Xamarin Studio is currently a more viable option for developing iOS applications.

Another important refresher was for the Xamarin solution structure. We talked about how developers can share code between different platforms and re-use public or private stores to include shared modules. Shared projects make up the basis for most cross-platform development patterns and strategies together with portable class libraries.

Overall, when using the Xamarin specifications and features, the main objective of developers should be to create loosely coupled, platform-agnostic modules that increase productivity and improve the quality of cross-platform development projects.

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