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Create high-quality multi-platform native apps with Xamarin.Forms
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
Find out how, when, and why you should use architectural patterns and get best practices with Xamarin.Forms
Book DescriptionDiscover how to extend and build upon the components of the Xamarin.Forms toolkit to develop an effective, robust mobile app architecture. Starting with an app built with the basics of the Xamarin.Forms toolkit, you’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.
You’ll start by introducing a core separation between the app’s user interface and its business logic by applying the MVVM pattern and data-binding. Then you focus on building out a layer of plugin-like services that handle platform-specific utilities such as navigation and geo-location, and on how to loosely use these services in the app with inversion of control and dependency injection. Next you connect the app to a live web-based API and set up offline synchronization. Then, you delve into testing the app logic through unit tests. Finally, you set up Visual Studio App Center for monitoring usage and bugs to gain a proactive edge on app quality.
What you will learn
Implement the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) pattern and data-binding 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
Test business logic in Xamarin.Forms mobile apps
Use platform-specific APIs to build rich custom user interfaces in Xamarin.Forms mobile apps
Explore how to improve mobile app quality using Visual Studio AppCenter
Who this book is forThis 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.
