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You're reading from Xamarin.Forms Projects Build seven real-world cross-platform mobile apps with C# and Xamarin.Forms

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789537505

Length 416 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Xamarin

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Karlsson

Hindrikes

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Xamarin FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Our First Xamarin.Forms App

3. A Matchmaking App with a Rich UX Using Animations

4. Building a Location Tracking App Using GPS and Maps

5. Building a Weather App for Multiple Form Factors

6. Setting up a Backend for a Chat App Using Azure Services

7. Building a Real-Time Chat Application

8. Creating an Augmented-Reality Game

9. Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog Using Machine Learning

10. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Beginning the project

It's time to start coding! First, however, make sure you have your development environment set up as described in Chapter 1, Introduction to Xamarin.

This chapter will be a classic File | New Project chapter, guiding you step-by-step through the process of creating the app. There will be no downloads required whatsoever.

Creating the project

Open Visual Studio and click on File | New | Project, as shown in the following screenshot:

This will open the New Project dialog. Expand the Visual C# node and click on Cross-Platform. Select the Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms) item in the list. Complete the form by naming your project. We will be calling our application WhackABox in this example. Move on to the...

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Authors (2)

Karlsson

Johan Karlsson has been working with Xamarin since the days of MonoTouch and Mono for Android, and it all started with writing a game. He is a full-stack developer, currently focusing on mobile applications using Xamarin, but has in the past worked a lot with ASP.NET MVC, Visual Basic.NET (not proud), and C# in general. Also, he's created a whole bunch of databases in SQL Server over the years. Johan works at tretton37 in Sweden and has about 20 years' experience in the trade of assembling ones and zeros.

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Hindrikes

Daniel Hindrikes is a developer and architect with a passion for developing mobile apps powered by the cloud. Daniel fell in love with Xamarin in the early days of Xamarin when he realized that he could use C# even for iOS and Android apps, and that he could share code with the Windows apps he was also building. But Daniel started to build mobile apps long before that, working on Android apps with Java and even Java ME apps (a long, long time ago). Daniel enjoys sharing his knowledge and can be found speaking at conferences, blogging, or recording the podcast, The Code Behind. Daniel works at the company tretton37 in Sweden and has experience working with both local and global customers.

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