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181 pages, published on May 2019
Author(s): GoalKicker Books
Series: Programming Notes for Professionals
Publisher: GoalKicker Books
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 181
Tags: Programming, Notes, Xamarin, Professionals
Content list
About
Chapter 1: Getting started with Xamarin.Forms
Section 1.1: Installation (Visual Studio)
Section 1.2: Hello World Xamarin Forms: Visual Studio
Chapter 2: Why Xamarin Forms and When to use Xamarin Forms
Section 2.1: Why Xamarin Forms and When to use Xamarin Forms
Chapter 3: Xamarin Forms Layouts
Section 3.1: AbsoluteLayout
Section 3.2: Grid
Section 3.3: ContentPresenter
Section 3.4: ContentView
Section 3.5: ScrollView
Section 3.6: Frame
Section 3.7: TemplatedView
Section 3.8: RelativeLayout
Section 3.9: StackLayout
Chapter 4: Xamarin Relative Layout
Section 4.1: Box after box
Section 4.2: Page with an simple label on the middle
Chapter 5: Navigation in Xamarin.Forms
Section 5.1: NavigationPage flow with XAML
Section 5.2: NavigationPage flow
Section 5.3: Master Detail Navigation
Section 5.4: Using INavigation from view model
Section 5.5: Master Detail Root Page
Section 5.6: Hierarchical navigation with XAML
Section 5.7: Modal navigation with XAML
Chapter 6: Xamarin.Forms Page
Section 6.1: TabbedPage
Section 6.2: ContentPage
Section 6.3: MasterDetailPage
Chapter 7: Xamarin.Forms Cells
Section 7.1: EntryCell
Section 7.2: SwitchCell
Section 7.3: TextCell
Section 7.4: ImageCell
Section 7.5: ViewCell
Chapter 8: Xamarin.Forms Views
Section 8.1: Button
Section 8.2: DatePicker
Section 8.3: Entry
Section 8.4: Editor
Section 8.5: Image
Section 8.6: Label
Chapter 9: Using ListViews
Section 9.1: Pull to Refresh in XAML and Code behind
Chapter 10: Display Alert
Section 10.1: DisplayAlert
Section 10.2: Alert Example with only one button and action
Chapter 11: Accessing native features with DependencyService
Section 11.1: Implementing text-to-speech
Section 11.2: Getting Application and Device OS Version Numbers - Android & iOS - PCL
Chapter 12: DependencyService
Section 12.1: Android implementation
Section 12.2: Interface
Section 12.3: iOS implementation
Section 12.4: Shared code
Chapter 13: Custom Renderers
Section 13.1: Accessing renderer from a native project
Section 13.2: Rounded label with a custom renderer for Frame (PCL & iOS parts)
Section 13.3: Custom renderer for ListView
Section 13.4: Custom Renderer for BoxView
Section 13.5: Rounded BoxView with selectable background color
Chapter 14: Caching
Section 14.1: Caching using Akavache
Chapter 15: Gestures
Section 15.1: Make an Image tappable by adding a TapGestureRecognizer
Section 15.2: Gesture Event
Section 15.3: Zoom an Image with the Pinch gesture
Section 15.4: Show all of the zoomed Image content with the PanGestureRecognizer
Section 15.5: Tap Gesture
Section 15.6: Place a pin where the user touched the screen with MR.Gestures
Chapter 16: Data Binding
Section 16.1: Basic Binding to ViewModel
Chapter 17: Working with Maps
Section 17.1: Adding a map in Xamarin.Forms (Xamarin Studio)
Chapter 18: Custom Fonts in Styles
Section 18.1: Accessing custom Fonts in Syles
Chapter 19: Push Notifications
Section 19.1: Push notifications for Android with Azure
Section 19.2: Push notifications for iOS with Azure
Section 19.3: iOS Example
Chapter 20: Eects
Section 20.1: Adding platform specific Eect for an Entry control
Chapter 21: Triggers & Behaviours
Section 21.1: Xamarin Forms Trigger Example
Section 21.2: Multi Triggers
Chapter 22: AppSettings Reader in Xamarin.Forms
Section 22.1: Reading app.config file in a Xamarin.Forms Xaml project
Chapter 23: Creating custom controls
Section 23.1: Label with bindable collection of Spans
Section 23.2: Implementing a CheckBox Control
Section 23.3: Create an Xamarin Forms custom input control (no native required)
Section 23.4: Creating a custom Entry control with a MaxLength property
Section 23.5: Creating custom Button
Chapter 24: Working with local databases
Section 24.1: Using SQLite.NET in a Shared Project
Section 24.2: Working with local databases using xamarin.forms in visual studio 2015
Chapter 25: CarouselView - Pre-release version
Section 25.1: Import CarouselView
Section 25.2: Import CarouselView into a XAML Page
Chapter 26: Exception handling
Section 26.1: One way to report about exceptions on iOS
Chapter 27: SQL Database and API in Xamarin Forms.
Section 27.1: Create API using SQL database and implement in Xamarin forms,
Chapter 28: Contact Picker - Xamarin Forms (Android and iOS)
Section 28.1: contact_picker.cs
Section 28.2: MyPage.cs
Section 28.3: ChooseContactPicker.cs
Section 28.4: ChooseContactActivity.cs
Section 28.5: MainActivity.cs
Section 28.6: ChooseContactRenderer.cs
Chapter 29: Xamarin Plugin
Section 29.1: Media Plugin
Section 29.2: Share Plugin
Section 29.3: ExternalMaps
Section 29.4: Geolocator Plugin
Section 29.5: Messaging Plugin
Section 29.6: Permissions Plugin
Chapter 30: OAuth2
Section 30.1: Authentication by using Plugin
Chapter 31: MessagingCenter
Section 31.1: Simple example
Section 31.2: Passing arguments
Section 31.3: Unsubscribing
Chapter 32: Generic Xamarin.Forms app lifecycle? Platform-dependant!
Section 32.1: Xamarin.Forms lifecycle is not the actual app lifecycle but a cross-platform representation of it
Chapter 33: Platform-specific behaviour
Section 33.1: Removing icon in navigation header in Anroid
Section 33.2: Make label's font size smaller in iOS
Chapter 34: Platform specific visual adjustments
Section 34.1: Idiom adjustments
Section 34.2: Platform adjustments
Section 34.3: Using styles
Section 34.4: Using custom views
Chapter 35: Dependency Services
Section 35.1: Access Camera and Gallery
Chapter 36: Unit Testing
Section 36.1: Testing the view models
Chapter 37: BDD Unit Testing in Xamarin.Forms
Section 37.1: Simple Specflow to test commands and navigation with NUnit Test Runner
Section 37.2: Advanced Usage for MVVM
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