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Mastering Xamarin.Forms
Mastering Xamarin.Forms

Mastering Xamarin.Forms: App architecture techniques for building multi-platform, native mobile apps with Xamarin.Forms 4 , Third Edition

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  • Updated for Xamarin.Forms 4
  • Packed with real-world scenarios and solutions to help you build professional grade mobile apps with Xamarin.Forms
  • Includes design patterns and best practice techniques that every mobile developer should know

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Discover how to extend and build upon the components of the most recent version of Xamarin.Forms to develop an effective, robust mobile app architecture. This new edition features Xamarin.Forms 4 updates, including CollectionView and RefreshView, new coverage of client-side validation, and updates on how to implement user authentication. Mastering Xamarin.Forms, Third Edition is one of the few Xamarin books structured around the development of a simple app from start to finish, beginning with a basic Xamarin.Forms app and going step by step through several advanced topics to create a solution architecture rich with the benefits of good design patterns and best practices. This book introduces a core separation between the app's user interface and the app's business logic by applying the MVVM pattern and data binding, and then focuses on building 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. You’ll connect the app to a live web-based API and set up offline synchronization before testing the app logic through unit testing. Finally, you will learn how to add monitoring to your Xamarin.Forms projects to track crashes and analytics and gain a proactive edge on quality.

Who is this book for?

This book is intended for .NET developers who are familiar with Xamarin mobile application development and the open source Xamarin.Forms toolkit. If you have already started working with Xamarin.Forms and want to take your app to the next level, making it more maintainable, testable and flexible, then this book is for you.

What you will learn

  • Find out how, when, and why to use architecture patterns and best practices with Xamarin.Forms
  • Implement the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and data binding in Xamarin.Forms mobile apps
  • Incorporate client-side validation in Xamarin.Forms mobile apps
  • Extend the Xamarin.Forms navigation API with a custom ViewModel-centric navigation service
  • Leverage the inversion of control and dependency injection patterns in Xamarin.Forms mobile apps
  • Work with online and offline data in Xamarin.Forms mobile apps
  • Use platform-specific APIs to build rich custom user interfaces in Xamarin.Forms mobile apps
  • Explore how to monitor mobile app quality using Visual Studio App Center

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Alvin Ashcraft Jan 19, 2020
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There aren’t a lot of great Xamarin books available, but you can add this one to the shortlist. Mastering Xamarin.Forms by Ed Snider is a fantastic reference for mobile developers. If you’re a .NET developer with at least some exposure to Xamarin development, this book will give you the knowledge you need to build great mobile apps with Xamarin.Forms with Visual Studio on your Mac or Windows environment.Snider takes my favorite approach when writing the book. He builds an end-to-end sample app throughout the book, building onto it with the patterns and practices learned in each chapter. For me, getting hands-on and building a real-world app while reading a book or watching a video training course reinforces the lessons. The app in this book is a TripLog, which can be used as a travel log or diary.After creating the project and a couple of initial screens, Snider dives right into some patterns for mobile app development, starting with the MVVM (model-view-view model) pattern. With each pattern or practice, he explains the concept, how to implement it in Xamarin.Forms and .NET, and then explains how our apps benefit from the implementation. For MVVM, he goes into data binding and validation, which become trivial with the pattern.The next several chapters detail best practices for navigation, leveraging dependency injection to create platform-specific implementations across iOS, Android or UWP on Windows, and some UI tips for handling platform differences through custom renderers. Snider pulls some Azure concepts into the book with Azure Functions. Learn to make API calls from an app service into Azure Functions and then add authentication to Azure Functions and a login screen to the app. I’ve never used any data caching frameworks in my mobile apps, so the section on Akavache for caching was really helpful. It was pretty trivial to add some offline caching to the Xamarin app.The unit testing section is really thorough. I have seen many .NET books that just glance over the topic of unit testing and best practices for testing, but Snider really gives a solid base for readers here. Finally, in the final chapter, monitoring is covered. He mainly explains how to set up Visual Studio App Center to track some usage and the health of the app while it’s running out in the world. When optimally configured, this data can give the information developers need to keep their user base happy and engaged. Kudos to Ed Snider for a really well-written book for Xamarin.Forms developers. I strongly encourage you to check it out if you’re getting serious about building mobile apps.
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Nadine Meißner Apr 19, 2021
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Wurde verschenkt. Dem beschenkten gefiel es Sehr.
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Gunter R. Beck Sep 14, 2020
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The book is page after page actual working samples and examples. You may skip a chapter, say on Dependency Services; but you will always have a working app. Great as a reference app on your 'backup' drive. I highly recommend Ed Snider
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Michael C. Gamble Mar 07, 2020
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I have a complaint as a non-corporate programmer is available training. You see a new methodology or framework and go I think that maybe just what I need? Your first look is say Microsoft. There you find a couple of pages where they give you just the bare essentials. From there you start your journey. Web sites all over that basically copy the same examples used on Microsoft with zip added or a web site where they jump to some advanced manipulation of video on a phone..... This book is not any of that! This book which I'm about half way through is showing you how to build a practicle application giving you all the things you need. Like authorization, Testing, Monitoring, Azure Functions. A real example, great book!
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Skye Mar 06, 2020
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If you have never tried Xamarin.Forms it can be very intimidating to jump in as a good Xamarin.Forms developer needs to understand iOS, Android and the Xamarin.Forms APIs. This book touches on every aspect of mobile app development from writing XAML, custom native renderers and app monitoring/analytics. I now recommend this book to Xamarin Developers and team members.Mastering Xamarin.Forms walks you through building a travel logging app from start to finish. This method of writing allows the app that is being written in each chapter to build on itself. There are detailed code samples for the reader to follow along using Visual Studio on windows or mac. I recommend to read the book chapter-to-chapter, but afterwards it is a great reference.I really enjoyed seeing the detailed code samples and explanations for all the popular topics. The author goes into detail about different open source projects in the Xamarin Ecosystem and shows the value of leveraging these libraries. Offline Data is a common troublesome topic in any mobile app, the chapter dedicated to offline data provides excellent advice for getting started in offline data.
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