Xamarin

Course Prerequisites:

C# programming experience

Introduction to Cross-Platform Development

• Examining the Android, iOS and Windows UI Experiences
• Options for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
• Problems with Cross-Platform Mobile Development
• Getting to Know Xamarin
• Anatomy of a Xamarin Application
• Understanding Portable Class Libraries

Configuring your Development Environment:

• Installing Visual Studio and Xamarin
• Configuring the Mac for iOS Apps
• Testing Apps Using Emulators
• Testing Apps on Physical Devices:
• Building a “Hello World” Shared Project in Visual Studio

Improving Your C#:

• Reviewing C# and the .NET Framework
• Understanding await/async
• Understanding RESTful Services

Part I: Introduction to Xamarin.Forms:

• Configuring the Visual Studio Project
• Introducing XAML
• Handling Events
• Using XAML to Layout the UI
• Using XAML Controls
• Platform Specific Calls

Part II: Introduction to Xamarin.Forms:

• Working with Text
• Working with XAML Resources
• Working with XAML Styles
• Data Binding
• Working with Bitmaps

Customizing Xamarin.Forms Controls on Each Platform:

• Custom Renderers
• Implementing and Customizing Views
• Using Dependency Injection

Working with Xamarin.Android for Native UI:

• Configuring the Visual Studio Project
• Understanding Android Concepts Events, Protocols and Delegates
• Designing a UI for the Android
• Layouts
• Widgets
• Accessing Android APIs

Working with Xamarin.iOS for Native UI:

• Configuring the Visual Studio Project Understanding iOS Concepts
• iOS Model-View-Contrroller
• Events, Protocols and Delegates
• Designing a UI for iOS
• StoryBoards
• Types of UIViewControllers Accessing iOS APIs
• Calling Existing Objective C/Swift Code

Working with Data:

• Local Data Options
• Calling RESTful Services

Working with Touch

• Understanding Touch Events
• Using Gesture Recognizers

Working with Location Services:

• Understanding GeoLocation
• Implementing “Where Am I”

Extending Your Application with NuGet and the Xamarin Components Stores:

• Cloud Service Features (ex: Authentication Support, Azure Mobile Client, etc)
• Libraries (ex: Barcode Scanning, Messaging, Credit Card Scanning, etc)
• User Interface Components (ex: Charts, Carousels, Signature Pads, etc)