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Xamarin.Forms Projects

You're reading from   Xamarin.Forms Projects Build multiplatform mobile apps and a game from scratch using C# and Visual Studio 2019

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839210051
Length 504 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Xamarin 2. Building Our First Xamarin.Forms App FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a News App Using Xamarin.Forms Shell 4. A Matchmaking App with a Rich UX Using Animations 5. Building a Photo Gallery App Using CollectionView and CarouselView 6. Building a Location Tracking App Using GPS and Maps 7. Building a Weather App for Multiple Form Factors 8. Setting Up a Backend for a Chat App Using Azure Services 9. Building a Real-Time Chat Application 10. Creating an Augmented Reality Game 11. Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog Using Machine Learning 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

DoToo.iOS

This is the iOS app. It contains a few more files than its Android counterpart:

The AppDelegate.cs file is the entry point for an iOS app. This file contains a method called FinishedLaunching(...), which is where we start writing code:

public override bool FinishedLaunching(UIApplication app, NSDictionary options)
{
global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init();
LoadApplication(new App());
return base.FinishedLaunching(app, options);
}

The code starts off by initializing Xamarin.Forms and then loads the application from the .NET Standard library. After that, it returns the control to iOS. It must do this within 17 seconds or the app is terminated by the OS.

The info.plist file is an iOS-specific file that contains information about the app, such as the bundle ID and its provisioning profiles. It has a graphical editor but can also be edited in any text editor since it's a standard XML file.

The Entitlements.plist file is also an iOS-specific file that configures the entitlements that we want our app to take advantage of, such as in-app purchases or push notifications.

As with the Android app's start up code, we don't need to understand what is going on here in detail, other than that it's important for the initialization of our app.

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Published in: Jun 2020
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