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Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development

Develop powerful cross-platform applications with Xamarin

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Jonathan Peppers  
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|Sep 2025
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Develop powerful cross-platform applications with Xamarin

Key Features

  • Write native cross-platform applications with Xamarin
  • Design user interfaces that can be shared across Android, iOS, and Windows Phone using Xamarin.Forms
  • Practical cross-platform development strategies

Book Description

Xamarin is a leading cross-platform application development tool used by top companies such as Coca-Cola, Honeywell, and Alaska Airlines to build apps. Version 4 features significant updates to the platform including the release of Xamarin.Forms 2.0 and improvements have been made to the iOS and Android designers. Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft so it is now a part of the Visual Studio family.

This book will show you how to build applications for iOS, Android, and Windows. You will be walked through the process of creating an application that comes complete with a back-end web service and native features such as GPS location, camera, push notifications, and other core features. Additionally, you’ll learn how to use external libraries with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms to create user interfaces. This book also provides instructions for Visual Studio and Windows.

This edition has been updated with new screenshots and detailed steps to provide you with a holistic overview of the new features in Xamarin 4.

What you will learn

  • Apple's MVC design pattern
  • The Android activity lifecycle
  • Share C# code across platforms and call native Objective-C or Java libraries from C#
  • Create a real web service back end in Windows Azure using SQL Azure as database storage
  • Set up third-party libraries such as NuGet and Objective Sharpie in many different ways, and port a desktop .NET library to Xamarin
  • Use Xamarin.Mobile for camera, contacts, and location

Who this book is for

If you are a developer with experience in C# and are just getting into mobile development, this is the book for you. This book will give you a head start with cross-platform development and will be the most useful to developers who have experience with desktop applications or the web.

Table of Contents

  1. Setting up Xamarin
  2. Hello, Platforms!
  3. Code Sharing Between iOS and Android
  4. XamSnap, a Cross-platform App
  5. XamSnap for iOS
  6. XamSnap for Android
  7. Deploying and Testing on Devices
  8. Web Services with Push Notifications
  9. Third Party Libraries
  10. Contacts, Camera, and Location
  11. Xamarin.Forms
  12. App Store Submission
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78646-991-5
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 292
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Computer sciences, other

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