Publisher's Note: This edition from 2018 is outdated. A new third edition, updated for Xamarin.Forms 4, has now been published.
Key Features
- Packed with real-world scenarios and solutions to help you build professional grade mobile apps with Xamarin.Forms
- Build an effective mobile app architecture with the Xamarin.Forms toolkit
- Maximize the overall quality of your Xamarin.Forms apps
Book Description
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.
Who This Book Is For
This book is intended for C# developers who are familiar with the Xamarin platform and the Xamarin.Forms toolkit. If you have already started working with Xamarin.Forms and want to take your app to the next level with higher quality, maintainability, testability, and flexibility, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents
- Getting Started
- MVVM and Data-binding
- Navigation
- Platform Specific Services and Dependency Injection
- User Interface
- API Data Access
- Authentication
- Testing
- App Monitoring
Ed Snider is a senior software engineer, speaker, author, and Xamarin MVP based in the Washington D.C./Northern Virginia area. He has a passion for mobile design and development and regularly speaks about Xamarin and Windows app development at local user groups and community events. Ed is also the founder and organizer of the DC area Mobile .NET Developers Group. Ed works at InfernoRed Technology, where his primary role is working with clients and partners to build awesome mobile solutions on the iOS, Android, and Windows platforms. He's been coding for over half of his life, starting out by working part time in high school updating the local newspaper's website and building web apps for small businesses in his hometown. For the first few years of his career as a software developer, Ed worked with Cold Fusion to build dynamic web applications and e-commerce solutions. He started working with the .NET framework when .NET 2.0 came out, building enterprise software with WinForms and ASP.NET, and eventually got into SharePoint solution architecture and development for large federal organizations. For the past several years, Ed has been focused on building mobile apps with .NET for Windows, iOS, and Android using Xamarin.
