The book is primarily aimed at .NET developers with slim to moderate experience with Xamarin and .NET Core. The cloud infrastructure-related sections heavily use various services in the Azure cloud infrastructure. However, familiarity with basic management concepts of Azure portal should be enough for the more advanced topics.

For the code samples, a combination of Windows and macOS development environments are used throughout the book. The ideal setup to utilize the samples would be to use macOS together with a Windows 10 virtual machine. This way, samples from both environments can be used. 

The IDE of choice for implementing the code walk-throughs is Visual Studio 2019 on Windows, and Visual Studio for Mac on macOS. Visual Studio Code, which supports both platforms, can be used to create the scripting and Python examples.

You can download the example code files for this book from your account at www.packt.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit www.packt.com/support and register to have the files emailed directly to you.

You can download the code files by following these steps:

1. Log in or register at www.packt.com.
2. Select the SUPPORT tab.
3. Click on Code Downloads & Errata.
4. Enter the name of the book in the Search box and follow the onscreen instructions.

Once the file is downloaded, please make sure that you unzip or extract the folder using the latest version of:

• WinRAR/7-Zip for Windows
• Zipeg/iZip/UnRarX for Mac
• 7-Zip/PeaZip for Linux

The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Mobile-Development-with-.NET-Core. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository. Refer GitHub README for more details on prerequisites of services.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/9781789538519_ColorImages.pdf.

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

namespace FirstXamarinFormsApplication
{
    public partial class MainPage : ContentPage
    {
        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            BindingContext = new MainPageViewModel();
        }
    }
}  

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

public App ()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    MainPage = new NavigationPage(new ListItemView());
} 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

 docker run -p 8000:80 netcore-usersapi 

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Both the ALM process and the version control options are available under the Advanced section of the project settings."