Over 80 hands-on recipes to unleash full potential for Xamarin in development and monetization of feature-packed, real-world Android apps
About This Book
• Create a number of Android applications using the Xamarin Android platform
• Extensively integrate your Android devices with other Android devices to enhance your app creation experience
• A comprehensive guide packed with real-world scenarios and pro-level practices and techniques to help you build successful Android apps
Who This Book Is For
If you are a Xamarin developer who wants to create complete Android applications with Xamarin, then this book is ideal for you. No prior knowledge of Android development is needed, however a basic knowledge of C# and .NET would be useful.
What You Will Learn
• Install and use Xamarin.Android with Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio
• Design an app's user interface for multiple device configurations
• Store and protect data in databases, files, and on the cloud
• Utilize lists and collections to present data to the user
• Communicate across the network using NFC or Bluetooth
• Perform tasks in the background and update the user with notifications
• Capture and play multimedia, such as video and audio, with the camera
• Implement In-App Billing and Expansion Files and deploy to the store
In Detail
Xamarin is used by developers to write native iOS, Android, and Windows apps with native user interfaces and share code across multiple platforms not just on mobile devices, but on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Developing apps with Xamarin.Android allows you to use and re-use your code and your skills on different platforms, making you more productive in any development. Although it's not a write-once-run-anywhere framework, Xamarin provides native platform integration and optimizations. There is no middleware