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Mastering Xamarin.Forms

By : Hernandez, Ed Snider

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Mastering Xamarin.Forms

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By: Hernandez, Ed Snider

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Overview of this book

Discover how to extend and build upon the components of the Xamarin.Forms toolkit to develop effective, robust mobile app architecture. Starting with an app built with the basics of the Xamarin.Forms toolkit, we'll go step by step through several advanced topics to create a solution architecture rich with the benefits of good design patterns and best practices. We'll start by introducing a core separation between the app's user interface and the app's business logic by applying the MVVM pattern and data-binding. Then we will focus on building out a layer of plugin-like services that handle platform-specific utilities such as navigation and geo-location, as well as how to loosely use these services in the app with inversion of control and dependency injection. Next we'll connect the app to a live web-based API and set up offline synchronization. Then, we'll dive into testing the app logic through unit tests. Finally, we will setup Visual Studio App Center to automate building, testing, distributing and monitoring the app.

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Getting Started

Introducing the app idea

Creating the initial app

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MVVM and Data Binding

Understanding the MVVM pattern

Adding MVVM to the app

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Navigation

The Xamarin.Forms navigation API

Navigation and MVVM

Creating a navigation service

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Platform Specific Services and Dependency Injection

Inversion of control and dependency injection in mobile apps

Xamarin.Forms DependencyService versus third-party alternatives

Creating and using platform-specific services

Registering dependencies

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User Interface

Custom renderers

Value converters

Adding pull-to-refresh

Accessibility

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API Data Access

Creating an API with Microsoft's Azure App Service

Creating a base HTTP service

Creating an API data service

Offline data caching

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Authentication

Adding identity and authentication to Azure Mobile Apps

Creating an authentication service

Adding a sign in page

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Testing

Unit testing

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App Monitoring

Mobile app analytics and crash reporting

Visual Studio App Center

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